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Eastern Bishopweed,
Ptilimnium capillaceum
Samll white flowers in a compound umbel, the umbel bracts usually 3-parted, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Flowering Dogwood,
Benthamidia florida
Most laymen erroneously think that the showy white bracts are petals, per Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962).
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Flowering Dogwood,
Benthamidia florida
Its true flowers are clustered in the center of white petal-like bracts, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).
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Kousa Dogwood,
Benthamidia japonica
Creamy, white, taper-pointed bracts are the showy part of the inflorescence, per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Dirr, 1975+).
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Bunchberry,
Chamaepericlymenum canadense
Four large bracts surround a central cluster of 4-petaled yellowish flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Red Osier Dogwood,
Swida sericea
Leaves have 5-7 veins on each side, and the inflorescence lacks bracts, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Mountain Sweet-pepperbush,
Clethra acuminata
Pedicels 2-6(-11)mm, stellate-hairy; bract longer than flower, per Flora of North America.
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Coastal Sweet-pepperbush,
Clethra alnifolia
Pedicels 2-4mm, shortly stellate-hairy; bract shorter than flower, per Flora of North America.
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Mountain Sweetbells,
Eubotrys recurvus
Pedicels each with 2 bracteoles just below the calyx. Calyx lobes lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Southern Dwarf Huckleberry,
Gaylussacia dumosa
Racemes to 4cm long; raceme bracts foliaceous and longer than pedicels, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).
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Dangleberry,
Gaylussacia frondosa
Flowers greenish-white to pinkish, bracts small, stalks short-hairy, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Mosier's Huckleberry,
Gaylussacia mosieri
Flowers in axillary, usually few-flowered, bracteate racemes on wood of the preceding season, per Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981).
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Appalachian Deerberry,
Vaccinium stamineum var. 2
Bracts of the inflorescence much smaller than normal foliage leaves, per Weakley's Flora.
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Southern Deerberry,
Vaccinium stamineum var. sericeum
Bracts of the inflorescence much smaller than normal foliage leaves, per Weakley's Flora.
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Cranberry,
Vaccinium macrocarpon
Flowers solitary, axillary on old growth; each pedicel with 2 bracts, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Small Cranberry,
Vaccinium oxycoccos
Pedicels 2-3cm, bracteolate or not; bracteoles 1-5, reddish, scalelike, per Flora of North America.
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Oconee Bells,
Shortia galacifolia
Scapes with 3-5 bracts, these often closely subtending the calyx, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Fraser's Loosestrife,
Lysimachia fraseri
Inflorescence a terminal panicle subtended by bracts much smallr than stem lvs, per Weakley's Flora.
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Swamp Candles,
Lysimachia terrestris
Flwrs in terminal raceme, all subtended by linear bracts smaller than stem lvs, per Weakley's Flora.
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Godfrey's Forestiera,
Forestiera godfreyi
Flowers subtended by 6 bracts, fringed apically; sepals mostly < 1mm, per Forestiera godfreyi (Oleaceae), a New Species from FL and SC (Anderson, 1985).
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Fringetree,
Chionanthus virginicus
Each panicle w tripartite branching & sometimes pairs of small leafy bracts, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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Carolina Jessamine,
Gelsemium sempervirens
Pedicels short, bracteate. Sepals lanceolate, separate to base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Indian-pink,
Spigelia marilandica
Inflorescence terminal, one or two ebracteate, spicate helicoid cymes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Juniperleaf,
Polypremum procumbens
Flowers subtended by a pair of short leaflike bracts, per www.missouriplants.com (Tenaglia).
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Pinewoods Rose-gentian,
Sabatia gentianoides
A group of 1-5 flowers, sessile or subsessile. Linear bracts exceed corolla, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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Cumberland Rose-gentian,
Sabatia capitata
Each flower subtended by two 1-2cm long, oblong to elliptic bracts, per Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011).
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Pennywort,
Obolaria virginica
Flowers subtended by obovate, wedge-shaped greenish-purple bracts of leaves, per Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011).
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Compact Dodder,
Cuscuta compacta
Flowers subtended by 1-10 bracts, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
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Compact Dodder,
Cuscuta compacta
Bracts orbicular with rounded tips, imbricate, tightly subtending flower, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
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Compact Dodder,
Cuscuta compacta
Bracts tightly appressed (vs. loose with recurved tips in C. glomerata), per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
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Common Dodder,
Cuscuta gronovii
Flowers not subtended by bracts (or occ. 1 bract). Sepals ~ united basally, per Key to the Dodders (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and Adjacent States (Spaulding, 2013).
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Common Jacquemontia,
Jacquemontia tamnifolia
Inflorescence subtended by foliaceous bracts; sepals densely fulvous-hirsute, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Field Bindweed,
Convolvulus arvensis
Smaller flowers than Calystegia and lacking its calyx-concealing bracts, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Appalachian Bindweed,
Convolvulus species 2
Here ssp. appalachiana has strongly keeled bracts with overlapping bases, per Key to the Bindweeds (Calystegia/Convolvulus, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013).
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Twin-flowered Bindweed,
Convolvulus fraterniflorus
Bracts distinctly overlap and conceal the majority of the sepals, per Key to the Bindweeds (Calystegia/Convolvulus, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013).
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Twin-flowered Bindweed,
Convolvulus fraterniflorus
Margins of bracts overlapping at least half their length, per Key to the Bindweeds (Calystegia/Convolvulus, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013).
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Blue Ridge Bindweed,
Convolvulus sericatus
In the genus Calystegia, 2 large bracts below the calyx conceal the sepals, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Catesby's Bindweed,
Convolvulus catesbyanus
Its large bracts almost hide sepals, per Key to the Bindweeds (Calystegia/Convolvulus, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013).
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Common Morning Glory,
Ipomoea purpurea
Ipomoea has no bracts below calyx, whereas Calystegia and Convolvulus do, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Hairy Phlox,
Phlox amoena
Corollas subtended by stiff hairy 3/8" sepals and conspicuous floral bracts, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Broadleaf Phlox,
Phlox amplifolia
Broad open inflorescence w glandular hairy bracts and glabrous corolla tube, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Indian Heliotrope,
Heliotropium indicum
Flowers in simple, solitary, bractless, elongate, false, helicoid raceme, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Stiff Verbena,
Verbena rigida
Funnelform flower 2.5x longer than the hairy calyx and subtending bract, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Stiff Verbena,
Verbena rigida
Flowers with hairy bracts crowded into slender terminal spikes, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Carpet Bugle,
Ajuga reptans
Thyrse leafy-bracteate, cymules sessile, 3-5 flowered; bracts reduced upward, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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American Germander,
Teucrium canadense var. canadense
Usually a bracteate thyrse with sessile cymules, each with 3-5 flowers, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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American Germander,
Teucrium canadense var. canadense
Bracts shorter than, to slightly exceeding, calyx, the very lowest leaf-like, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Shale-barren Skullcap,
Scutellaria leonardii
Flowers axillary, corolla 6.5-9mm long; bracts resembling stem leaves, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Hairy Skullcap,
Scutellaria elliptica var. elliptica
Bracts reduced upward, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Kentucky Skullcap,
Scutellaria elliptica var. hirsuta
Bracts reduced (not leaf-like); corollas 14-18(-21)mm, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Purple Giant-hyssop,
Agastache scrophulariifolia
Flowers and small pinkish-white bracts densely packed in 6" terminal spikes, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
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Yellow Giant-hyssop,
Agastache nepetoides
Bracts in the flower spike are green (vs. pinkish in A. scrophulariifolia), per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007).
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Tidal Marsh Obedient-plant,
Physostegia leptophylla
Uppermost leaves below terminal raceme usually much larger than floral bracts, per Weakley's Flora.
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Carolina Birds-in-a-nest,
Macbridea caroliniana
Overlapping nestlike bracts subtending the flowers give it its common name, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Carolina Hedgenettle,
Stachys caroliniana
Bracts reduced upward, lowest lanceolate, progressively trullate to ovate, per A new hedge-nettle (Stachys: Lamiaceae) from SC (Nelson & Rayner, 2014).
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Smooth Hedgenettle,
Stachys tenuifolia
Bracts of the inflorescence inconspicuous, rapidly reduced upward, per Weakley's Flora.
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Europe sage,
Salvia sclarea
Bracts or floral lvs large, cuspidate, as long as or longer than flowers, per Flora of Pakistan.
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Scarlet Beebalm,
Monarda didyma
Showy reddish bracts, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Purple Beebalm,
Monarda media
Deep reddish purple flowers and dark purple floral bracts, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Basil Bergamot,
Monarda clinopodia
Outer subtending bracts green or pale (rarely with a purplish midvein), per Weakley's Flora.