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Adam's Needle, Beargrass, Curlyleaf Yucca, Spoonleaf Yucca
Leaves Beargrass is easy to identify by its sharp, thick, evergreen leaves in a mounded basal rosette and the long, curly filaments on the leaf margins. Paynter, Wilmington, 4/30/2010 Common in dunes, woods and roadsides of the coast, piedmont and mountains. Note from Jack Spruill: "The leaves / blades of this plant are very strong. I remember when people who smoked herrings would use the split blades of beargrass to tie the herrings into small bundles to be hung in a smoke house. Even through suitable cord was widely available, it was the tradition to use split beargrass blades." |
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Coming into bloom Wilmington, May 2012 |
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Flowers close up |
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Inside the flower, 3-cleft stigma surrounded by stamens with pollen. |
Agarista, Florida Hobblebush, Pipe-plant, Fetterbush, Coast Leucothoe, Florida Leucothoe
Agarista populifolia [= Leucothoe populifolia]
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Alabama Azalea
Rhododendron alabamense [= Azalea alabamensis]
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Alabama Croton
Croton alabamensis var. alabamensis
Small yellow flowers in March Garden in Orange County, NC Bettina Darveaux |
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Close-up of leaves showing silvery scales. More numerous scales are on the underside of the leaves creating a silvery sheen Garden in Orange County, NC Bettina Darveaux |
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Fall colors beginning to appear at end of summer Garden in Orange County, NC Bettina Darveaux |
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Fall colors in November with next years flower buds formed. Plant is semi-evergreen so the orange foliage persists into the following year. Garden in Orange County, NC Bettina Darveaux |
Alabama Snow-wreath
Showy white stamens and no petals, with alternate, toothed leaves Forsyth County NC (wildflower garden) Lisa Lofland Gould |
Allegheny Blackberry
5 petals and 5 sepals, the petals longer than the sepals Rutherford County NC Lisa Lofland Gould |
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Trifoliate compound leaves (usually), canes without a whitish bloom, petals longer than sepals Forsyth County NC Lisa Lofland Gould |
Allegheny Monkey-flower
The flowers are on long pedicels as verses in the similar species M. alatus where the flowers are sessile. Macon County, NC Bettina Darveaux |
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Close-up of flower showing the lower lip which has some yellow in the throat Jackson County, NC Bettina Darveaux |
Allegheny Onion
Patch of Allegheny Onion Paynter, August 2011 |
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Flowers |
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In seed Paynter, September 2011 |
Allegheny Spurge
Old Leaves & New Bloom Tom Harville |
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Buds Tom Harville |
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Blooms Tom Harville |
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Blooms Close Up Tom Harville |
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Leaves Early Spring Tom Harville Note that the mottling develops over the winter. |
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Leaves, Early Fall Tom Harville |
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New Leaves Pete Schubert Note the one whitish leaf. There's no obvious explanation but we will watch it in years to come. |
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