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Habitat: Moist forests, especially over calcareous or mafic rocks
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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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The 5-12 petal-like sepals are white, pink, lavender, purple or blue, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Three-lobed evergreen leaves w sharply pointed tips, hence the common name, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).
Habitat: Moist forests
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The flowers are 0.5-1" across, and may be blue, violet, pink, or sometimes white, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Leaves 3-lobed with rounded tips, wider than long, persisting thru winter, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Flowers have 5-12 sepals (no petals) & numerous stamens & ovaries, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Leaves purplish beneath, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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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).