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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Yeatesia viridiflora
FAMILY
Acanthaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Its flowering stalk appears above the leaves, and features a number of very prominent bracts, one below each flower. Read more in John Nelson's Mystery Plant column.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Yeatesia viridiflora
FAMILY
Acanthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Yeatesia viridiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH The Genera of Acanthaceae in the Southeastern US (Long, 1970)
Dicliptera viridiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Yeatesia viridiflora
COMMON NAME:
Yellow Bractspike
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May Allendale County SC
Leaf blades elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 5-15cm long; margins entire, per Manual of the Southeastern Flora (JK Small, 1933).
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Corolla 4-lobed, the lobes nearly equal, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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May Allendale County SC
Flowers in conspicuously bracted spikes, per Manual of the Southeastern Flora (JK Small, 1933).
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May Allendale County SC
Bracts and/or bractlets subtending the flowers conspicuous, 5-15mm long, obovate, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Corolla slightly 2-lipped: upper lip entire or nearly so; lower lip 3-lobed, per Manual of the Southeastern Flora (JK Small, 1933).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Yeatesia viridiflora
FAMILY
Acanthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Yeatesia viridiflora
FAMILY
Acanthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Yeatesia viridiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Genera of Acanthaceae in the Southeastern US (Long, 1970)
Dicliptera viridiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Yeatesia viridiflora
4512
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Rich bottomlands, calcareous river bluffs and hammocks, prairies, marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White, pale-purplish, or pink
5-lobed calyx
Slightly 2-lipped, 5-lobed funnelform corolla
2 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall?
Capsule
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