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1. Alabama Croton Alabama Croton Croton alabamensis This is a rare and beautiful shrub, and found only in Tuscaloosa and Bibb counties in Alabama. It grows along the river banks with stems that are 6 to 10 ft. high, and has silvery scaly twigs.
2. Alabama Croton Alabama Croton Croton alabamensis This rare plant blooms in March. Its flowers grow in terminal racemes. The fertile flowers are at the base of the sterile spike. Both staminate and pistillate flowers have scaly petals.
3. Alabama Croton Alabama Croton Croton alabamensis The leaves of this rare shrub are oblong-lanceolate, dark green and smooth above, but with silvery lustrous scales below. The fruit is a capsule 1/3 in. long, and with oval seed about 1/5 in. long
4. Arrowleaf Morning-glory Arrowleaf Morning-glory Ipomoea sagittata This twining or trailing perennial is found on stable dune areas, and the edges of brackish marshes and ponds, sometimes forming a dense mat over other vegetation. Shown here are Dr. John D. Freeman and...
5. Aster Aster Aster oblongifolius Rare perennial with a panicle of blue to violet rays, and yellow to red disc flowers. Stem leaves lanceolate to oblong. Blooms late Sept.-Oct.
6. Atamasco Lily Atamasco Lily Zephyranthes atamasco On creek banks, in roadside ditches, and swampy wet woods, this little flower invites the bees and other insects to come enjoy its nectar.
7. Atamasco Lily Atamasco Lily Zephyranthes atamasco Several narrow, linear basal leaves grow from a bulb in early spring. The single-flowered, fleshy stalk is without leaves; the flower petals are about 3 in. long.
8. Atamasco Lily Atamasco Lily Zephyranthes atamasco It is easy to grow this plant. It likes rich leaf mold and acid soils, but its biggest requirement is moisture. It blooms best with an hour or so of sunlight, or several hours of bright, dappled sun.
9. Bakeri azalea Bakeri azalea Rhododendron cumberlandense An irregular-branched shrub ranging from 2-8 feet or more, in open woods at high elevations of the Cumberland Plateau. The flowers range from red, orange, to rarely yellow, and these flowers appear after...
10. Bakeri azalea Bakeri azalea Rhododendron cumberlandense This shrub grows in open woods at high elevations in the Cumberland Plateau in Kentucky, south across Tennessee to the mountains of northern Georgia, Alabama, and in the higher elevations of western North...
11. Bald Cypress Bald Cypress Taxodium distichum Bald Cypress trees growing in Reelfoot Lake in Kentucky. Bald Eagle searching for fish in the lake at dawn.
12. Balduina, Honeycombhead Balduina, Honeycombhead Balduina uniflora Flowers terminal and solitary; disc flowers perfect, ray flowers sterile, 3-5 toothed, yellow, more than an inch long. Blooms July-October in savannas, pinelands and bogs.
13. Bearded Grass-pink Bearded Grass-pink Calopogon barbatus The sepals and petals are spread gracefully with a colorful bearded lip above them. The petals are rose-pink with 3-5 flowers in a cluster. This plant is most often found in burned-over pinelands and meadows,...
14. Beauty-berry, French Mulberry Beauty-berry, French Mulberry Callicarpa americana A small ornamental shrub with tiny lavender flowers in the axils of the leaves, followed in the fall by crimson (sometimes white) berries (drupes) chustered around the stem. This fruit is attractive to...
15. Beauty-berry, French Mulberry Beauty-berry, French Mulberry Callicarpa americana This small shrub grows over most of the South. Its deciduous leaves are opposite, toothed and aromatic. They are green on top and downy underneath.
16. Bellwort. Merrybells Bellwort. Merrybells Uvularia perfoliata The solitary, perfect flower is just over an inch long. There are 6 tepals (3 petals and 3 sepals) of soft yellow. It blooms in April to June. This bellwort multiplies by long, fleshy, white underground...
17. Bent Wake-Robin Bent Wake-Robin Trillium flexipes This flower has large white petals, light green sepals, and long yellow anthers. It perfers wet sights in limestone regions, and blooms in April.
18. Big-leaf Magnolia Big-leaf Magnolia Magnolia macrophylla This uncommon tall tree grows in rich low or upland woods. The deciduous leaves are about 30 in. long and about 8 in. wide; bright green above and downy underneath. It blooms in May.
19. Birdfoot Violet Birdfoot Violet Viola pedata These spring-blooming flowers are solitary, on stalks that are usually taller than the leaves. It grows in sunny or semi-shaded, well drained, usually acid soil. The name "birdfoot" refers to its deeply...
20. Bitterweed Bitterweed Helenium amarum Widely distributed and abundant annual. Numerous yellow flower heads. Narrow pinnatifid leaves with strong odor. Imparts a bitter taste to milk when grazed. Blooms from June to frost.
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