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Key to Hypopitys

Ericaceae

Hypopitys

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1 Stems of living plants pink to deep red; bracts of stem yellow; stigma densely and retrorsely puberulent in a collar; funnel of stigma hairy within; flowering in the fall (late Aug-Oct); anthers held below the stigma; [broadly Appalachian]
1 Stems of living plants tan, yellow, or pale salmon; stigma with sparse pubescence; funnel of stigma glabrous within; flowering in the summer (May-early Aug); anthers held at height of the stigma; [collectively widespread in our area].
  2 [of n. peninsular FL]
  2 [collectively widespread in our area (including Panhandle FL, but not peninsular FL)].
    3 [in and west of the Appalachians]
    3 [widespread in our area]