NameThatPlant.net: Yeatesia viridiflora

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Yeatesia viridiflora FAMILY Acanthaceae Go to FSUS key

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

COMMON NAME:
Yellow Bractspike

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Yeatesia viridiflora FAMILY Acanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Yeatesia viridiflora FAMILY Acanthaceae

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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