| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diapensiaceae | Diapensiaceae | Diapensia Family |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Diapensiaceae | Galax | Galax |  (c) Zacharias, Christopher - CC-BY | ||
| Diapensiaceae | Galax urceolata | Galax, Beetleweed | Mountain forests, rock outcrops, nearly ubiquitous in the Mountains, more restricted in habitat elsewhere, moist to dry slopes in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain, often associated with Kalmia latifolia or Rhododendron maximum. | The genus consists of this single species, with a range centered in the Southern Appalachians, occurring in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, e. Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. | (c) Zacharias, Christopher - CC-BY |
| Diapensiaceae | Pyxidanthera | Pyxie-moss, Pyxie |  (c) Stuart, Will | ||
| Diapensiaceae | Pyxidanthera barbulata var. barbulata | Savanna Pyxiemoss, Common Pyxiemoss, Big Pyxie | Pine savannas, pine flatwoods, pocosin margins, edges of sandhill seepage bogs, primarily in mesic to hydric sites, in wet sands and peaty sands, occasionally extending to submesic sands, but generally with a permanently or seasonally high water table, often with Sphagnum. | New York (Long Island) south to New Jersey, and from se. Virginia south to n. South Carolina. |  (c) Curtis, Kathryn - CC-BY |
| Diapensiaceae | Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia | Sandhill Pyxiemoss, Wells's Pyxiemoss, Little Pyxie | On xeric sandhills, generally over deep sand, sand-clay mixtures, or plinthite, near the summits or on the upper slopes of sandhills, restricted to the Fall-line Sandhills region. | This species is endemic to a six-county area of the Fall-line Sandhills of North Carolina and South Carolina. In North Carolina, it is nearly limited to Fort Bragg, and is puzzlingly absent from seemingly suitable habitat on the Sandhills Game Land to the west. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Diapensiaceae | Shortia | Shortia, Oconee Bells | (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Diapensiaceae | Shortia brevistyla | Northern Shortia | On moist slopes, creekbanks, and rock outcrops in humid escarpment gorges with high rainfall, generally in deep shade under Rhododendron maximum, at elevations of 350-550m. | This species is known only from McDowell County, North Carolina, where it occurs on several tributaries of the Catawba River and North Fork Catawba River. It has also been reported from the gorge of the Linville River, Burke County, but this locality is questionable and has not been relocated. This area is disjunct about 100 kilometers to the northeast along the Blue Ridge Escarpment from the range of Shortia galacifolia (in the narrow sense). |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Diapensiaceae | Shortia galacifolia | Southern Shortia, Oconee Bells | On moist slopes, creekbanks, and rock outcrops in humid escarpment gorges with high rainfall, generally in deep shade under Rhododendron maximum and R. minus, at elevations (in NC) of 350-650m. | This species occurs in Transylvania and Jackson counties, North Carolina, Oconee and Pickens counties, South Carolina, and Rabun County, Georgia, where it occurs in the remarkable escarpment gorges region, at elevations from 200-650m (formerly at lower elevations, now submerged under Lake Jocassee). Most of the population of this species, including the type locality, was destroyed in the early 1960's by the construction of Lake Jocassee (Zahner & Jones 1983). In the gorge tributaries of the Eastatoe, Toxaway, Horsepasture, and Thompson rivers, Shortia can sometimes form a dense groundcover covering acres. Various outlying locations, such as in North Carolina (Swain and Macon counties), Virginia (Amherst County), and Tennessee (Blount, Monroe, and McMinn counties) are not considered native, and are adventive or the result of persistence after cultivation. A recently discovered population in DeKalb County, Alabama may represent a natural occurrence and needs additional investigation of its nativity (Barger et al. 2012); for the moment it has been mapped as questionably native/alien in Alabama. The species is prized by gardeners, and survives well outside its natural range. | (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |