FLOWERS: White, lip often spotted green with brown streaks, borne on a short, densely bracted terminal inflorescence. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Pistillate flowers bracted with a three to five, normally four-lobed calyx and sometimes with petals. ❋ Unknown (1920)
Trees with alternate pinnate leaves and monoecious bracted flowers. ❋ Unknown (1920)
They were scarcely more alive than the creeping, hour-hand tendrils about them, mere double-stemmed, fluffy petaled blossoms, no more strange than the nearest vegetable blooms -- the cannon-ball mystery, the sand-box puzzle, sinister orchids, and the false color-alarms of the white-bracted silver-leaf. ❋ William Beebe (1919)
_Flowers_ -- Small, dull purple and white, tawny, or brownish striped; scattered along loose, tiny bracted, ascending branches. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
_Scapes: _ Clustered from a dense mass of fleshy, fibrous roots; 4 to 12 in. tall, scaly bracted, the bractlets resembling the sepals. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
_Flowers_ -- Pale yellow, 1-1/2 to 2 in. long; in showy, terminal, leafy bracted racemes. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
_Flowers_ -- White, with a green centre, pink tinted outside, about 1/4 in. across, in bracted racemes 2 to 8 in. long. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
Now two of them bear their flowers in bracted whorls, condensed into umbels at the summits of a scape. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
_Flowers_ -- Light canary yellow and orange, 1 in. long or over, irregular, borne in terminal, leafy-bracted spikes. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
_Flowers_ -- Yellow, fragrant, opening at evening, 1 to 2 in. across, borne in terminal leafy-bracted spikes. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
_Flowers_ -- Rich vermilion, very rarely rose or white, 1 to 1-1/2 in. long, numerous, growing in terminal, erect, green-bracted, more or less ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
July, when the brown buds at the ends of the sprays swell and open, revealing the young leaves, which at first are bright yellow, making the tree appear as if covered with gay blossoms; while the pendulous bracted cones, three or four inches long, with their shell-like scales, are a constant adornment. ❋ John Muir (1876)
Appearing with the leaves in slender, bracted, greenish-yellow, corymbous racemes, from terminal buds of the preceding season, sterile and fertile flowers on separate trees, -- sterile flowers with 9 stamens, each of the three inner with two stalked orange-colored glands, anthers 4-celled, ovary abortive or wanting: fertile flowers with 6 rudimentary stamens in one row; ovary ovoid; style short. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)
Appearing with the leaves in axillary clusters of small greenish flowers, sterile and fertile usually on separate trees, sometimes on the same tree, -- sterile flowers in simple or compound clusters; calyx minutely 5-parted, petals 5, small or wanting; stamens 5-12, inserted on the outside of a disk; pistil none: fertile flowers larger, solitary, or several sessile in a bracted cluster; petals 5, small or wanting; calyx minutely 5-toothed. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)
Appearing before the leaves in loose panicles from lateral or terminal buds of the preceding season, sterile and fertile flowers on different trees; bracted; calyx none; petals none. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)
Aquilegias Green Apples, Double Rubies and Royal Purple; their Astantia Maxima - 'exquisite green bracted, pure rose pink flowers above bold tripartite foliage'; their Bupleurum 'Bronze ❋ Unknown (2011)
Red-bracted forms are the most popular but white, pink and blends are also available. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“In December wild flowers are rare till after Christmas, when the long-bracted orchid, the purple anemone, and the violet make their appearance. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
"I wish [Gary] would stop bracting! I have to [tell] him to meet me at 1 now [just so] he arrives at 4!" ❋ Smackyboy (2022)
"I wish [Dave] would stop bracting up. I have to tell him to meet me at 1 if [I want] him to [get there] by 4 now! ❋ English Poet (2022)
