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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution	Image
Primulaceae	Anagallis	Pimpernel
Primulaceae	Anagallis arvensis	Scarlet Pimpernel, Common Pimpernel, Hierba del Pájaro, Poor Man's Weatherglass	Lawns, fields, disturbed areas.	Native of Europe.
Primulaceae	Anagallis latifolia	Blue Pimpernel	Disturbed areas.	Native of Europe. Reported as introduced in PA, KY, OH, and other scattered states north and west of our area (Kartesz 1999).
Primulaceae	Anagallis monelli	Blue Pimpernel	Along intermittent stream in suburban woodlands, probably only a waif.	Native of sw. Europe. Reported for Fairfax County, VA by Harvill et al. (1992) and Shetler & Orli (2000).
Primulaceae	Androsace	Rock-jasmine
Primulaceae	Androsace occidentalis	Western Rock-jasmine	Glades, thin soils of rock outcrops, disturbed areas.	ON and BC south to nw. OH, IN, IL, MO, nw. AR, TX, NM, AZ, CA.
Primulaceae	Ardisia	Ardisia
Primulaceae	Ardisia crenata	Coral Ardisia, Coralberry, Spiceberry, Hen’s Eyes, Marlberry, Scratchthroat	Moist suburban forests, floodplains, mesic flatwoods, moist forests.	Native of Asia. Naturalized from horticultural use in s. GA (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009), s. AL (Barger et al. 2012), e. SC (Beaufort County) (Bradley et al. [in prep.]), FL Panhandle, and FL peninsula.
Primulaceae	Ardisia elliptica	Shoebutton Ardisia	Hammocks, suburban woodlands.	Native of Asia.
Primulaceae	Ardisia escallonioides	Marlberry	Hammocks, edges of marl prairies, occasionally in disturbed habitats.	N. peninsular FL (Flagler, Volusia and Pasco counties) south to s. FL; West Indies; Mexico and Central America.
Primulaceae	Ardisia japonica	Japanese Ardisia	Disturbed areas.	Native of Asia.
Primulaceae	Ardisia solanacea	China-shrub	Disturbed hammocks.	Native of Asia.
Primulaceae	Bonellia
Primulaceae	Bonellia macrocarpa ssp. macrocarpa	Cudjoewood	Mangrove forest edges and disturbed coastal areas.	Native of Mexico and Central America.
Primulaceae	Centunculus	Chaffweed, Pimpernel
Primulaceae	Centunculus minimus	Chaffweed, False-pimpernel	Ditches, wet disturbed areas, pine savannas, pond margins.	This species occurs in widely scattered areas, nearly cosmopolitan.
Primulaceae	Centunculus pumilus	Florida Pimpernel	Mesic pine flatwoods.	S. FL; West Indies (Jamaica); Mexico, Central America, and South America (Colombia, Ecuador).
Primulaceae	Cyclamen
Primulaceae	Cyclamen hederifolium	Hardy Cyclamen	Suburban woodlands, spreading from horticultural use.	Native of Mediterranean Europe and w. Asia.
Primulaceae	Hottonia	Water-violet
Primulaceae	Hottonia inflata	Featherfoil, Water-violet	Slow-moving or stagnant waters of swamps, millponds, beaverponds, sag ponds, oxbows, rivers, probably dispersed by waterfowl, primarily in the Coastal Plain, very rarely in the Piedmont and Mountains.	ME south to GA, west to TX, inland up the Mississippi Embayment to IL, and at other scattered locations inland (as w. WV, and especially around the Great Lakes). Townsend (1995) documented its first SC record.
Primulaceae	Jacquinia
Primulaceae	Jacquinia arborea	Bracelet-wood	Margins of mangroves, disturbed coastal areas.	Native of West Indies and Mexico south to Central America.
Primulaceae	Jacquinia keyensis	Joewood, Cudjoewood	Maritime hammocks, pine rocklands, coastal strands, disturbed areas.	S. FL; West Indies (Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica).
Primulaceae	Lysimachia	Loosestrife
Primulaceae	Lysimachia ×producta		Wet barrens in oak flatwoods, other moist areas.	MT, QC, ON, and WI south to NC and TN.
Primulaceae	Lysimachia asperulifolia	Pocosin Loosestrife, ‘Roughleaf Loosestrife’	Low pocosins, high pocosins, streamhead pocosins, savanna-pocosin ecotones, sandhill-pocosin ecotones.	Endemic to the Coastal Plain of NC and SC.
Primulaceae	Lysimachia barystachys	Manchurian Loosestrife	Disturbed areas.	Native of Manchuria. Reported from a single county in nc. GA (Jones & Coile 1988; Kartesz 2020) {further investigate}.
Primulaceae	Lysimachia clethroides	Gooseneck Loosestrife	Roadsides (cultivated and rarely persistent or escaped).	Native of Japan. Collected in the Mountains of NC (Macon County), escaped from cultivation; it is also reported as naturalized in Grundy County, TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997, Kral 1981) and White County, GA (C. Horn, pers. comm., 2018).
Primulaceae	Lysimachia fraseri	Fraser’s Loosestrife	Hardwood forests, forest edges and roadbanks, thin soils around rock outcrops, usually flowering only when exposed to extra sunlight by a tree-fall light gap or other canopy opening.	W. NC and e. TN south to n. SC, n. GA, and AL; disjunct in s. IL and nw. TN (Benton, Humphreys, and Stewart counties). This rare species is limited in NC to the mountains south of the Asheville Basin, especially in the escarpment gorges of Macon and Jackson counties.
Primulaceae	Lysimachia japonica	Japanese Loosestrife, Ko-nasubi, Dwarf Creeping-Jenny, Miniature Moneywort	Grassy places, roadsides, disturbed areas.	Native of Japan and China. Reported for WV (FNA 2009, Harmon, Ford-Werntz, & Grafton 2006), LA (FNA 2009), and e. TN (M. Brock, pers.comm., 2022).
Primulaceae	Lysimachia loomisii	Carolina Loosestrife	Moist to wet savannas, pocosin ecotones.	Endemic to the outer and middle Coastal Plain of NC, SC, and e. GA
Primulaceae	Lysimachia maritima	Sea-milkwort	Saline coastal habitats.	The species is interruptedly circumboreal, in North America from QC south to MD on the east coast, and from BC south to OR on the west coast, also inland in w. North America, from SK south to NM. Gleason & Cronquist (1952) suggested that L. maritima is introduced near its southern limit in the east.
Primulaceae	Lysimachia nummularia	Creeping Jenny, Creeping Charlie, Moneywort	Lawns, pastures, seepages, other moist, disturbed places.	Native of Europe.
Primulaceae	Lysimachia punctata	Large Loosestrife, Spotted Loosestrife	Disturbed areas.	Native of Eurasia. First found in NC in 1985 (Weakley in prep.).
Primulaceae	Lysimachia quadrifolia	Whorled Loosestrife	A wide variety of forests and openings, including pine savannas of the outer Coastal Plain, ranging from moist to very dry.	ME west to WI and MN, south to SC, c. GA, AL, and TN.
Primulaceae	Lysimachia terrestris	Bog Loosestrife, Bog-candles, Swamp-candles	Bogs, wet meadows, and swamp forests.	NL (Newfoundland) west to MN and SK, south to SC, GA, e. TN, and sc. TN.
Primulaceae	Lysimachia thyrsiflora	Tufted Loosestrife	Bogs, swamps, marshes.	Circumboreal, south in North America to NJ, PA, OH, and MO (Kartesz 1999), WV (FNA), and MD (from Big Marsh, Kent County) (Steury, Tyndall, & Cooley (1996), NE, CO, UT, and CA.
Primulaceae	Lysimachia vulgaris	Garden Loosestrife	Disturbed bottomlands, marshes, disturbed areas.	Native of Europe. Introduced and naturalized south at least to se. and sc. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993), WV, KY, MD, and NJ (Kartesz 1999) and now reported for n. VA (Steury, Fleming, & Strong 2008).
Primulaceae	Myrsine	Colicwood
Primulaceae	Myrsine cubana	Myrsine, Colicwood	Hammocks.	Dixie, Levy, and Volusia counties FL, south to s. FL; West Indies; Mexico (CAM, CHP, ROO, TAB, VER) and Central America.
Primulaceae	Primula	Shooting star
Primulaceae	Primula fassettii	Jeweled Shooting-star	Moist ledges and bluffs over calcareous rocks.	WI and MN south to IL and MO; disjunct in sc. and se. PA, and MD (Allegany Co.). This species has been reported for ne. WV; those reports are in error.
Primulaceae	Primula frenchii	French's Shooting-star	Sandstone rockhouses, ledges, cliffs.	IN, IL, and MO south through KY to AL and AR.
Primulaceae	Primula japonica	Japanese Primrose
Primulaceae	Primula meadia	Eastern Shooting Star, Meadia	Rich forests, woodlands, and rock outcrops (primarily calcareous or mafic), especially with nutrient-rich seepage, prairies, bluffs.	MD and PA west to s. WI, se. MN, IA, and OK, south to sc. SC, n. GA, n. FL (Gadsden County), AL, and TX.
Primulaceae	Primula veris	Cowslip, Cowslip Primrose	Gardens and suburban areas, used horticulturally and rarely persistent.	Native of Eurasia.
Primulaceae	Primulaceae	Primrose Family
Primulaceae	Samolus	Water-pimpernel
Primulaceae	Samolus ebracteatus var. alyssoides	Texas Coastal Water-pimpernel	Coastal sandy dunes, beaches, salt marshes, coastal prairies, ditches.	Sw. LA, coastal TX, e. coast of Mexico.
Primulaceae	Samolus ebracteatus var. cuneatus	Inland Water-pimpernel	Seeps, springs, streams, pond margins.	Sc. KS, c. and w. OK, NM south to extreme s. TX, n. Mexico (TAM, COA, CHH, SLP); disjunct in s. NV.
Primulaceae	Samolus ebracteatus var. ebracteatus	West Indian Water-pimpernel, Limewater Brookweed	Brackish and salt marshes, brackish swamps, and wet pine flatwoods over calcareous substrates.	Peninsular FL, coastal Panhandle FL; West Indies.
Primulaceae	Samolus parviflorus	Water-pimpernel, Brookweed	Stream banks, tidal freshwater and oligohaline marshes, pools in floodplains, calcareous seepage swamps, interdune ponds.	NB west to BC, south to Central America; c. and s. South America; Bahamas.
Primulaceae	Steironema	Loosestrife	A genus of X species, perennial herbs, of temperate and boreal North America.
Primulaceae	Steironema ciliatum	Fringed Loosestrife	Mesic forests, especially bottomlands and coves dominated by hardwoods.	NL (Newfoundland) west to AK, south to GA, Panhandle FL, AL, MS, AR, KS, NE, CO, NM, UT, ID, and OR.
Primulaceae	Steironema gramineum	Grassleaf Yellow-loosestrife		Endemic to ne. AL (Little River Canyon area) and Floyd County, GA.
Primulaceae	Steironema hybridum	Lowland Loosestrife	Mesic hardwood forests, sinkhole and depression ponds, wet meadows, other wet areas.	ME and s. QC west to AB and WA, south irregularly to ne. FL, Panhandle FL, AR, NE, and AZ.
Primulaceae	Steironema lanceolatum	Lanceleaf Loosestrife	Mesic to relatively dry forests, mafic and calcareous fens, bogs, forest edges, roadbanks, primarily on circumneutral soils.	NJ, PA, OH, MI, and WI south to GA, Panhandle FL, AL, MS, LA, and ne. TX.
Primulaceae	Steironema lewisii	Lewis’s Loosestrife	Dry oak-hickory woodlands on ridges and upper slopes in dry, cherty, acid soils.	Endemic to Lewis and Maury counties, TN and Blount County, AL.
Primulaceae	Steironema quadriflorum	Smooth Loosestrife, Four-flowered Loosestrife	Wet meadows and calcareous fens, stream banks, prairie meadows.	MA, s. ON, MI, and ND south to w. VA, WV, nw. GA, AL, and AR; mainly north and west of the Ohio River, very rare and scattered in or east of the Appalachians. Reported for c. NC by Coffey & Jones (1980), based on 2 specimens; the records seem unlikely.
Primulaceae	Steironema radicans	Trailing Loosestrife	Moist forests, swamps, marshes, eastwards in mountain sinkhole ponds and interdunal ponds.	The main distribution of this species is in the Mississippi Embayment, from MO and w. TN south to MS, AR, LA, and e. TX; disjunct occurrences in e. and w. VA and e. NC are curious.
Primulaceae	Steironema tonsum	Southern Loosestrife, Appalachian Loosestrife	Moist to dry upland forests, especially over calcareous or mafic rocks.	Sc. VA, sw. VA, and KY south to SC, wc. GA, and e. TN. The range is centered on the Southern Appalachians, but the species is essentially absent from the higher mountains – a "doughnut range".
Primulaceae	Trientalis	Starflower
Primulaceae	Trientalis borealis	Northern Starflower, Maystar, Star-of-Seven	Northern hardwood forests, rich slope forests, often in second-growth areas.	This northern species, widespread in the mountains of VA, and known from a few locations in n. GA and ne. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), was first located in NC only in 1988 (Dellinger 1989).