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Wateree River Trillium,
Trillium oostingii
Scapes holding bracts (leaves) well above ground, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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American Lily-of-the-valley,
Convallaria pseudomajalis
Raceme bracts linear and at least as long as any individual flower stalk, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Rush-featherling,
Pleea tenuifolia
Bracts of the inflorescence large, spathelike, acuminate-aristate at the tip, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Perfoliate Bellwort,
Uvularia perfoliata
A large, leafy, perfoliate bract on the pedicel so the flower appears terminal, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Wild-oats,
Uvularia sessilifolia
One flower per stem, pedicels bractless, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Field Garlic,
Allium vineale
Young flowerhead enclosed by broad papery bract with long tapering point, per www.plant-identification.co.uk
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Cinnamon Vine,
Dioscorea polystachya
Male spikes bearing flowers singly, flowers bracteate, internodes < 2 mm, per Flora of North America.
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Yellow Stargrass,
Hypoxis hirsuta
Pedicel usually 2+ times longer than bracts, per Flora of North America.
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Pale Blue-eyed-grass,
Sisyrinchium albidum
A single outer bract, 3.5-10cm long, subtends twinned pair of sessile spathes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Pale Blue-eyed-grass,
Sisyrinchium albidum
Infl. paired, sessile (or to 5mm), closely subtended by long, bractlike leaf, per Flora of North America.
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Pink Lady's Slipper,
Cypripedium acaule
Floral bract somewhat arched above flower, lanceolate, 4-5cm long, acuminate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Purple Fringeless Orchid,
Platanthera peramoena
Raceme densely or loosely flowered, cylindrical, bracteate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Michaux's Orchid,
Habenaria quinqueseta
Leaves 6-25cm x 2.5-6cm, reduced above to clasping, ovate, acuminate bracts, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Southern Rein Orchid,
Platanthera flava var. flava
Leaves lanceolate, 2-8" long, reduced upward to short bracts, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Yellow Fringed Orchid,
Platanthera ciliaris
Leaves on the upper stem are tiny and almost like bracts, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).
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Rose Pogonia,
Pogonia ophioglossoides
A single fragrant flower grows at the summit of the stem from a leafy bract, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Appalachian Dragonhead Pogonia,
Cleistesiopsis bifaria
A solitary leaf about halfway up the stem & one leaf bract at ovary base, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).
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Appalachian Dragonhead Pogonia,
Cleistesiopsis bifaria
Distance between median leaf and floral bract 3-16cm, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Fishmint,
Houttuynia cordata
4 white petal-like bracts subtend flowers composed of a dense short spike of stamens & ovaries, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Upland Willow,
Salix humilis
Floral bracts of pistillate catkins moderately densely hairy, hairs white, per Flora of North America.
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Pecan,
Carya illinoinensis
In Carya the husk is derived from bract and bracteoles not the sepals, per Evolution, Phylogeny, and Systematics of Juglandaceae (Manos & Stone, 2001).
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Mockernut Hickory,
Carya tomentosa
Staminate catkins pedunculate, to 14 cm, stalks and bracts hirsute, scaly, per Flora of North America.
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Beaked Hazelnut,
Corylus cornuta var. cornuta
Fruit subtended and surrounded by soft bristly involucre of foliaceous bracts, per Flora of North America.
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Musclewood,
Carpinus caroliniana +
Var. caroliniana: Bracts of the infructescence with rounded to subacute tips & few, blunt teeth, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Musclewood,
Carpinus caroliniana +
Each ovoid nutlet subtended by a 3-lobed leaflike bract, in 2-4" clusters, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Musclewood,
Carpinus caroliniana +
Var. virginiana: Bracts of the infructescence mostly sharp-tipped & bearing several sharp teeth, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Chinese Chestnut,
Castanea mollissima
Cupule densely covered with pubescent spinelike bracts, per Flora of China.
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Dutchman's Pipe,
Isotrema macrophyllum
Peduncle 2-5cm long with a deciduous, perfoliate bract near the base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Turpentine-root,
Endodeca serpentaria
Peduncle to 1.5 cm, bracteolate; bracteoles lanceolate, to 3 mm, per Flora of North America.
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Woolly Dutchman's Pipe,
Isotrema tomentosum
Peduncle 1-7cm, not bracteolate, per Flora of North America.
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Mexican-tea,
Dysphania ambrosioides
Inflorescence usually very leafy-bracteate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Alligator-weed,
Alternanthera philoxeroides
Bracts not keeled. Peduncles 1-7cm, from the leaf axils or terminal, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Japanese Chaff-flower,
Achyranthes japonica var. hachijoensis
Bracteoles spinose, per Flora of North America.
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Smooth Pigweed,
Amaranthus hybridus ssp. hybridus
Floral bracts longer than subtended flowers, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Silverling,
Paronychia argyrocoma
Flowers mostly hidden by conspicuous silvery bracts; sepals white on margins, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Mountain Nailwort,
Paronychia montana
Anthers 0.25-0.3mm in diameter; stipular bracts subtending flowers ~ 0.5× as long as the flowers, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Deptford Pink,
Dianthus armeria
Flowers in congested cymes with long, erect awl-shaped bracts, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Bladder Campion,
Silene vulgaris
Cymes open; flowers bracteate and pedicellate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Royal Catchfly,
Silene regia
Inflorescences terminal, cymose, compound, many-flowered, bracteate, per Flora of North America.
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Southern Leatherflower,
Clematis crispa
Peduncles usually without bracts, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Northern Leatherflower,
Clematis viorna
2 subtending bracts positioned about halfway up the peduncle/ pedicel, per The genus Clematis in Georgia (Ware, 2009).
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Sharp-lobed Hepatica,
Hepatica acutiloba
Flowers are subtended by 3 green bracts with pointed tips, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Round-lobed Hepatica,
Hepatica americana
What appear to be petals are actually sepals, and beneath these are 3 bracts simulating a calyx, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Eastern Prairie Anemone,
Anemone berlandieri
Leaflike bracts 3 per stem, attached above the middle of the stem, each w 3+ narrow segments, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007).
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Lenten-rose,
Helleborus viridis
...(the stem with reduced, bracteal leaves subtending the inflorescence), per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Lenten-rose,
Helleborus viridis
Bracts subtending the inflorescence divided, serrate, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Winter-aconite,
Eranthis hyemalis
Solitary flower subtended by deeply lobed [bracts]. Basal lvs appear later, per The Southern Living Garden Book.
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Mexican Prickly-poppy,
Argemone mexicana
Flowers 4-7cm broad, subtended by 1-2 foliaceous bracts, per Flora of North America.
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Puck's Orpine,
Sedum pusillum
Each flower subtended by a leafy bract, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Elf-orpine,
Diamorpha smallii
Flowers in few-bracteate compound cymes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Escarpment Foamflower,
Tiarella austrina
Flowering stem usually with 1-2 leaves or leaf-like bracts, per New Species of Foamflower (Nesom, 2022).
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Wherry's Foamflower,
Tiarella wherryi
Flowering stem without leaves or leaf-like bracts, per New Species of Foamflower (Nesom, 2022).
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Wild Strawberry,
Fragaria virginiana
5 sepals interspersed and united with 5 similar but shorter & narrower bracts, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Indian Strawberry,
Potentilla indica
5 bracts, widened upward with 3(5) teeth, interspersed with 5 calyx lobes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Dwarf Cinquefoil,
Potentilla canadensis
Calyx lobes 2-5mm long, bracts slightly longer. Petals 7-10mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Old Field Cinquefoil,
Potentilla simplex
Epicalyx bractlets linear to narrowly lanceolate, often larger than sepals, per Flora of North America.
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Strawberry-weed,
Potentilla norvegica
Under the 5 yellow petals & 5 green sepals, there are 5 green bracts, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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Harbison's Hawthorn,
Crataegus harbisonii
Inflorescence 8-12 flowered, sometimes with persistent leaflike bracts, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).
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Creamy Wild Indigo,
Baptisia bracteata
Flowers in drooping 1-sided racemes with persistent bracts, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Narrow-pod White Wild Indigo,
Baptisia albescens
Flowering pedicels subtended by caducous bracts [here already gone] 1-2mm wide, per Weakley's Flora.