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Key K: holoparasites and holomycotrophs

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Stems thin, flexible, twining, yellow to bright orange; plants parasitic on the stems of other vascular plants via above-ground haustoria.
  2
Inflorescence a spike; flowers 3-merous (sepals 6, petals 0, stamens 9, carpel 1); fruit a 1-seeded fleshy drupe; fresh plants aromatic; [Basal Angiosperms]; [peninsular FL only]
 ⇒ Cassytha filiformis
  2
Inflorescence a cymose cluster; flowers 4-5-merous (sepals 4-5, petals 4-5, stamens 4-5, carpels 2 and fused); fruit a 1-4-seeded dry capsule; fresh plants not aromatic; [Eudicots]; [widespread]
 ⇒ Cuscuta
1
Stems erect, stiff, straight, variously colored (tan, red, violet, brown, white, pink); plants mycotrophic (or indirectly parasitic via a fungal intermediary), attached to fungi underground.
  3
Flowers radially symmetrical.
    4
Scale leaves alternate (spiral); [collectively widespread]
 ⇒ Ericaceae
    4
Scale leaves opposite; [s. FL only]
 ⇒ Leiphaimos parasitica
  3
Flowers bilaterally symmetrical.
    5
Petals 3, separate; stamen 1; capsule 1-locular, pendent when mature, opening by 3 slits; [Monocots]
 ⇒ Orchidaceae

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    5
Petals fused into a tube, with 4-5 lobes; stamens 4; capsule 2-locular, ascending or spreading when mature, opening by 2 valves; [Eudicots]
 ⇒ Orobanchaceae
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Key L: epiphytic angiosperms {Note that epiphytic Pteridophytes are not re-keyed here; seek them in Keys A4 and A6}

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Stems yellow to bright orange, lacking leaves
 ⇒ Cuscuta
1
Stems green or brown, with leaves (scale-like or larger).
  2
Leaves opposite, orbicular or oblanceolate, rounded at the apex; [Eudicots]
 ⇒ Phoradendron
  2
Leaves alternate, either orbicular or oblanceolate (rounded at the apex), or scale-like, or elongate and tapering, or lanceolate-elliptic.
    3
Leaves orbicular, rounded at the apex; [Basal Angiosperms]
 ⇒ Peperomia
    3
Leaves either scale-like, or elongate and tapering, or lanceolate-elliptic; [Monocots].
      4
Plants long-pendent, growing in variously abundant clumps draped along the branches of trees, the leaves densely gray and scaly
 ⇒ Tillandsia usneoides
      4
Plants primarily erect, not long-pendent nor growing as long pendent clumps draping from trees or other hosts, the leaves variously colored and textured (including sometimes gray and scaly).
        5
Leaves either scale-like or elongate and tapering (the leaves often erect and stiffened); plants with bulbous bases but lacking pseudobulbs (often, but not always with a "vase-like" appearance in which water pools); flowers radially symmetrical
 ⇒ Bromeliaceae
        5
Leaves lanceolate-elliptic; plants with variously-shaped bases, often bearing pseudobulbs (although not always); flowers bilaterally symmetrical, the corolla bearing a specialized lip (labellum)
 ⇒ Orchidaceae

(c) Montes de Oca, Joseph - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG
(c) Ward, Scott G
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Key M1: monocots with linear, scale, or narrow leaves (or grasses)

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Primary inflorescences of spikelets, these consisting of 1-2-many reduced florets, each subtended by 1-2 scales (and also enclosed in a sac or perigynium in Carex in CYPERACEAE), arrayed spirally or distichously, the spikelets then themselves arrayed in various dense or diffuse secondary or tertiary inflorescences; perianth absent, or reduced to chaff, scales, paddles, or bristles.
  2
Leaf sheaths continuous, lacking a split or only irregularly split in age; leaves usually 3-ranked (sometimes reduced to a sheath with a small scale at the summit; stems triangular in ×-section (or roundish), usually with a pith; flowers spirally arrayed in the spikelet (or distichously arrayed, in e.g. Cyperus, Dulichium, Kyllinga); anthers basifixed
 ⇒ Cyperaceae
  2
Leaf sheaths generally split lengthwise on the side opposite the leaf blade; leaves usually 2-ranked; stems round or flattened in ×-section, usually hollow; flowers distichously arrayed in the spikelet; anthers versatile
 ⇒ Poaceae
1
Primary inflorescences of dense spikes, spadices, heads, glomerules, or a compound corymb of helicoid cymes; perianth present, often very small and variously colored.
  3
Leaves equitant (the leaves distichous, in a fan-like array, e.g. Iris, each leaf clasping the next above in a basal fold, this uniting above so that the main leaf blade, above the basal fold, has only the lower [abaxial] leaf surface visible because of fusion of the ‘upper’ surfaces).
    4
Inflorescence a very densely flowered spike (spadix), appearing lateral, 1 per plant; fresh plant strongly aromatic
 ⇒ Acorus
    4
Inflorescence either more diffuse, 1 or several per plant, or terminal and cone-like; fresh plant not aromatic.
      5
Inflorescence brownish or tan, spherical, ovoid, or cylindrical, with numerous scale-like bracts arrayed in a cone; flowers individually conspicuous, a single yellow (to white) flower at a time emerging from each of the scales
 ⇒ Xyris
          7
Inflorescence or flower groups subtended by well-developed, green or scarious spathaceous bracts; inflorescence either a fan-shaped pair of cymes, or seemingly racemose, or solitary
 ⇒ Iridaceae
          7
Inflorescence or flower groups not subtended by spathes (though individual flowers may be subtended by small green bracts); inflorescence a raceme, panicle, or corymb.
             8
Inflorescence a corymb of helicoid cymes; corolla yellow, densely tomentose; roots bright red (Lachnanthes) or white to brown (Lophiola).
               9
Stamens 3, longer than the (ascending) tepals inner 3 tepals > 2 mm longer than the outer 3 tepals; rhizomes and roots of fresh plants bright red
 ⇒ Lachnanthes caroliniana
               9
Stamens 6, shorter than the (recurved) tepals; inner 3 and outer 3 tepals equal in length; rhizomes at roots of fresh plants white to brown
 ⇒ Lophiola aurea
             8
Inflorescence a terminal raceme (the flowers attached to the rachis in groups of 3 or more in Triantha in TOFIELDIACEAE); corolla white, cream, or yellow, glabrous; roots white or brown.
               10
Flowers white (yellow in Harperocallis, which is endemic to the FL Panhandle); capsule septicidal
 ⇒ Tofieldiaceae
  3
Leaves not equitant, sometimes distichous, upper and lower surfaces both present.
    11
Inflorescence either a linear spike, terminal, the thicker female portion below, the thinner male portion above, or an ovoid, hemispheric, spherical head or glomerule, 1 or several per plant
      12
Inflorescence a linear spike, terminal, the thicker female portion below, the thinner male portion above
 ⇒ Typha
      12
Inflorescence an ovoid, hemispheric, or spherical head or glomerule, 1 or several per plant.
        13
Flowers in a single head terminating an elongate scape; leaves basal (often with 1-2 much smaller leaves or bladeless sheaths on the lower part of the scape); inflorescence white, tan, pale yellow, gray, or blackish, the head usually as broad as or broader than long, involucrate
 ⇒ Eriocaulaceae
        13
Flowers in multiple heads, not scapose; leaves basal and usually also prominently cauline; inflorescence green, tan, brown, or reddish, the head spherical, not involucrate.
          14
Flowers bisexual, the flowers in various arrays
 ⇒ Juncaceae
          14
Flowers unisexual, the male flowers in a terminal head, the female flowers in heads below the male along a usually zigzag stem
 ⇒ Sparganium
    11
Individual flowers solitary or in more diffuse inflorescences, or if in compound panicles, plants also with coarsely serrate leaves (Bromeliaceae); perianth present, at least one whorl petal-like in size, color, and texture.
      15
Plants with long stiff leaves, the margins conspicuously spinose (feeling sharp to the touch); [non-natives, s. GA, s. TX, and FL]
 ⇒ Bromeliaceae
      15
Plants with variously shaped leaves, if long and stiffened then the margins not conspicuously spinose (feeling sharp to the touch); [natives and non-natives, widespread].
        16
Flowers bilaterally symmetrical; stamen 1 or 2; tepals 6; perianth often differentiated into a lip and 5 petaloid tepals
 ⇒ Orchidaceae
        16
Flowers radially symmetrical (sometimes weakly bilaterally symmetrical); stamens 6 (rarely 3); tepals usually 6 (rarely 3), when 6, either undifferentiated (6 tepals) or differentiated into 3 petals and 3 sepals.
          17
Leaves < 15 mm long, scale-like or linear; leaves cauline.
             18
Leaves (actually cladophylls) clustered, in whorls of (1-) 2-20 (-25); fruit a berry; perianth undifferentiated, of 6 yellow, white, or green tepals
 ⇒ Asparagus
             18
Leaves alternate; fruit a capsule; perianth either differentiated, the 3 petals yellowish-green or maroon, or undifferentiated, the 6 tepals white, blue, or purplish.
               19
Plants terrestrial, erect; stems and leaves lacking a scaly indumentum; flower solitary, or several to many in heads or racemose cymes; perianth undifferentiated, the 6 tepals white, blue, or purplish
 ⇒ Burmanniaceae
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Plants either epiphytic and pendulous in festoons, or terrestrial, wetland, or aquatic and sprawling; stems and leaves with or without a scaly indumentum; flowers solitary and axillary; perianth differentiated, the 3 petals either yellowish-green or maroon.
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Plants epiphytic, pendulous in festoons; stems and leaves densely covered by silvery scales; petals yellowish-green
 ⇒ Tillandsia
                 20
Plants of moist to wet habitats, sprawling or aquatic; stems and leaves not covered by silvery scales; petals maroon
 ⇒ Mayaca
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Leaves (at least the larger) > 25 mm long, linear or narrowly lanceolate; leaves basal, basally disposed (or rarely mostly or entirely cauline).
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Ovary inferior (or partly inferior; ambiguous taxa keyed both ways).
               22
Inflorescence axillary, a raceme or umbel (or reduced to a single flower); petaloid tepals yellow
 ⇒ Hypoxis
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Inflorescence terminal; petaloid tepals various (including yellow).
                 23
Inflorescence or flower groups subtended by well-developed, green or scarious spathaceous bracts; inflorescence either an umbel, or fan-shaped pair of cymes, or seemingly racemose, or solitary.
                   24
Stamens 3; inflorescence either a fan-shaped pair of cymes or seemingly racemose (or rarely solitary (e.g. Crocus)
 ⇒ Iridaceae
                 23
Inflorescence or flower groups not subtended by spathes (though individual flowers may be subtended by small green bracts; inflorescence a raceme or panicle.
                   25
Leaves fleshy; anthers 12-15 mm long
 ⇒ Agavaceae
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Tepals connate into a tube; perianth tube exterior farinose; flowers bisexual, white to bright yellow; inflorescence a raceme
 ⇒ Aletris
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Ovary superior (or partly inferior; ambiguous taxa keyed both ways).
               27
Gynoecium of 2 or more pistils, each pistil consisting of 1 carpel and with 1 stigma; [wetland plants].
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Inflorescence a terminal raceme, the flowers (fruits) in whorls of 3; perianth differentiated into showy petals and green sepals, the petals white; leaf not differentiated into a sheath and blade separated by a ligule; fruit an aggregate of achenes
 ⇒ Alismataceae
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Inflorescence a terminal raceme or spike, the flowers (fruits) alternate; perianth not differentiated, consisting of 3 or 6 green or yellow-green tepals; leaf differentiated into an open sheath and blade, with a ligule separating them; fruit an aggregate of achenes or follicles.
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Inflorescence ebracteate, with > 10 flowers; leaf without a terminal pore; carpels ascending, appressed to one another
 ⇒ Triglochin
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Inflorescence bracteate, with < 10 flowers; leaf with a terminal pore; carpels widely divergent, at nearly right angles to the axis
 ⇒ Scheuchzeria palustris
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Gynoecium of 1 pistil, with 2-6 stigmas; [wetland and upland plants].

(c) Ward, Scott G
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Leaves strictly or primarily cauline.
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Leaves linear, > 15 cm long, hollow or flat; inflorescence an umbel; fresh plants with an oniony odor
 ⇒ Alliaceae
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Leaves linear to lanceolate, < 15 (-30) cm long, flat; inflorescence various, not an umbel; fresh plants without oniony odor.
                     32
Petals < 2 cm long, white, blue, or pink; leaves alternate
 ⇒ Commelinaceae
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Petals > 5 cm long, yellow, orange, or red; leaves alternate or whorled
 ⇒ Lilium
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Leaves strictly or primarily basal (the basal leaves persistent, and larger than any stem leaves).
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Perianth differentiated into 3 bright pink petals and 3 green sepals
 ⇒ Cuthbertia
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Perianth not differentiated, the 6 segments similar in color, shape, and size, of various colors (often green, sometimes pink).
                     34
Tepals brown or green, not at all yellow, white, or otherwise more brightly colored; inflorescence branched and complex
 ⇒ Juncaceae
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Tepals white, cream, pink, greenish-yellow, yellow, orange, pink, blue, or blue-brown; inflorescence either a terminal umbel, subtended by spathes or bracts, or a terminal raceme or panicle (or a terminal corymb in Ornithogalum in HYACINTHACEAE), not subtended by spathes or bracts.
                       35
Inflorescence a terminal umbel, subtended by spathes or bracts; fresh plants with or without an oniony odor
 ⇒ Alliaceae
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Inflorescence a terminal raceme or panicle (or a terminal corymb in Ornithogalum in HYACINTHACEAE or helicoid cyme in Hemerocallis), not subtended by spathes or bracts (except Dianella).
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Tepals evidently connate, fused at least basally and sometimes nearly their entire length; filaments adnate to the tepals.
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Tepals 0.2-1.0 0.2-1.2 (-2.0) cm long, white, cream, yellow, blue, or blue-brown; anthers basifixed (attached at the base) or dorsifixed (attached at the back).
                              38
Leaves 4-12 dm long, leathery and somewhat fleshy in texture, erect or ascending
 ⇒ Dracaena
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Leaves < 4 dm long, herbaceous in texture, erect, ascending, or spreading
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Perianth blue or blue-brown, not farinose; leaves 2-7, erect, ascending, or the tips spreading; anthers dorsifixed (attached at the back)
 ⇒ Hyacinthaceae
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Perianth white, cream, or yellow, farinose-roughened on the outer surface; leaves typically > 8, spreading to slightly ascending (often forming a flattish rosette); anthers basifixed (attached at the bottom)
 ⇒ Aletris
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Styles 1, lobed only in the upper portion if at all; fruit either loculicidal capsules or berry-like; tepals blue, pink, creamy yellow, or white with a broad green or yellow central stripe.
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Tepals whitish or creamy yellow, with or without a medial yellow stripe; inflorescence a panicle; fruit a berry
 ⇒ Dianella ensifolia
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Fruit a berry (fleshy, unsegmented); tepals 3-10 mm long (Liriope) or ca. 6 mm long (Dianella); inflorescence a panicle (Dianella) or a raceme-like dibotrya (Liriope); tepals pink or blue (sometimes suffused yellow).
                            40
Styles 3, separate to the base; fruit a septicidal capsule (sometimes then also secondarily loculicidal); tepals white, greenish, yellowish, or pink.
                              45
Inflorescence ebracteate, lacking bracts subtending pedicels; tepals pink (Helonias) or white to cream (Chamaelirium).
                                46
Flowers white to cream; plants dioecious (individual flowers either male or female)
 ⇒ Chamaelirium luteum

(c) Bradley, Keith
(c) Dakar, Jacob
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Inflorescences bracteate, with bracts subtending individual pedicels and (if they are present) branches of the inflorescence; tepals white, greenish-white, or cream.
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Leaves narrowly linear, 1-2.5 mm wide, rigid, keeled, and serrulate; stems and leaves strictly glabrous
 ⇒ Xerophyllum asphodeloides
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Leaves linear or oblanceolate (rarely narrowly linear), > 2 mm wide, flexible, unkeeled, and with entire margins; stems and leaves pubescent with hairs or scales (except Amianthium)
 ⇒ Melanthiaceae
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Key M2: monocots with broad leaves

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Leaves compound.
  2
Plants herbaceous; leaves palmately 3-foliolate or pedately compound
 ⇒ Araceae
  2
Plants woody; leaves either palmately divided or pinnately compound into > 20 segments
 ⇒ Arecaceae
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Leaves simple.
  3
Leaves opposite or whorled, cauline.
    4
Leaves opposite; flowers bilaterally symmetrical
 ⇒ Neottia
    4
Leaves whorled; flowers radially or bilaterally symmetrical.
      5
Plant with 2 or more leaf-bearing nodes (all nodes whorled or some alternate).
        6
Leaves broad, < 2× as long as wide, cordate at the base; flowers unisexual and plants dioecious
 ⇒ Dioscorea

(c) Ward, Scott G
(c) Bridges, Edwin
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Leaves lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, > 4× as long as wide, cuneate at the base; flowers bisexual and plants hermaphroditic
 ⇒ Liliaceae
      5
Plant with a single leaf-bearing node.
        7
Leaves in whorls of 3 leaves
 ⇒ Trilliaceae

(c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG
        7
Leaves in whorls of 5 or more leaves.

(c) J. Kevin, England - C, permission granted to NCBG
          8
Stem floccose, wiry (and at maturity with a second smaller whorl with usually 3 leaves subtending the flowers); flowers radially symmetrical
 ⇒ Medeola virginiana

(c) Hartley, Nate - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG
(c) Steven, Daniel - C, permission granted to NCBG
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Stem glabrous, fleshy, never with a second whorl; flowers bilaterally symmetrical
 ⇒ Isotria

(c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY
(c) Fowler, Jim
  3
Leaves alternate, either cauline or basal.
    9
Inflorescence a spadix (a dense spike of hundreds of flowers, the rachis thickened and somewhat fleshy) subtended by a spathe (a green, white, orange, yellowish-green, or maroon bract) (spathe missing in Orontium)
 ⇒ Araceae
    9
Inflorescence otherwise, a raceme, panicle, cyme, umbel, spike, etc., the flowers arrayed in a more diffuse manner, the central rachis not thickened, the inflorescence subtended or not by green or scarious spathes.
      10
Flowers bilaterally symmetrical or asymmetrical; fertile stamens 1 or 2 (or 5 in MUSACEAE), often with several staminodes present as well; tepals 6.
        11
Leaf venation parallel; leaves various in size and shape, if > 3 dm long, then < 1 dm wide; perianth often differentiated into a lip and 5 petaloid tepals
 ⇒ Orchidaceae

(c) Stuart, Will
(c) Danielson, Erik
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Leaf venation prominently penni-parallel; leaves large, at least some on a plant with blade > 2 dm long.
          12
Fertile stamens 5-6; leaf blades 6-30 dm long
 ⇒ Musa
          12
Fertile stamen 1; leaf blades 0.5-7 dm long.
               14
Leaves lacking ligules; ovary and fruit with warty excrescences
 ⇒ Canna

(c) McLaurin, Lauren - CC-BY
(c) Bradley, Keith
               14
Leaves with 2 stipule-like ligules; ovary and fruit smooth
 ⇒ Costus
               15
Leaves jointed and swollen at the summit of the petiole, forming a pulvinus.
                 16
Plants terrestrial; bracts persistent; flowers white, sepals > 5 mm long; [se. FL only]
 ⇒ Maranta arundinacea
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Plants aquatic (or at least in very wet soils); bracts not persistent; flowers purple; sepals ≤ 3 mm long; [more widely distributed in southeastern coastal plain, including se. FL (T. geniculata)]
 ⇒ Thalia
               15
Leaves neither jointed not swollen at the summit of the petiole
 ⇒ Zingiberaceae
      10
Flowers radially symmetrical (weakly to strongly bilaterally symmetrical in PONTEDERIACEAE); stamens 6 (rarely 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, or 18); tepals usually 6 (rarely 3 or 4), when 6, either undifferentiated (6 or 4 tepals) or differentiated into 3 petals and 3 sepals.
        17
Inflorescence subtended by spathes (well-developed green or scarious bracts).
          18
Perianth not differentiated, consisting of 6 similarly colored and shaped tepals; flowers strongly to slightly bilaterally symmetrical; inflorescence lacking well-developed spathaceous bracts
 ⇒ Pontederiaceae
          18
Perianth differentiated into green sepals and more brightly colored petals; flowers radially symmetrical (or weakly bilaterally symmetrical, as in some Commelina).
             19
Ovary superior; fruit a capsule; stamens 6; [plants mainly of uplands (Murdannia and sometimes Commelina of wetlands)]
 ⇒ Commelinaceae
             19
Ovary inferior; fruit a berry; stamens 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, or 18; [plants of wetlands]
 ⇒ Hydrocharitaceae
        17
Inflorescence not subtended by spathes, though individual small green bracts sometimes subtending individual flowers.
          20
Gynoecium of 2 or more pistils (6 in Butomus); fruit achenes or follicles; inflorescence a raceme or panicle with branching in whorls of 3 OR a bracteate umbel; [wetland plants].
             21
Flowers consisting of white petals and green sepals, with 1-many stamens and 3-many carpels (but not consistently with 9 stamens and 6 carpels); inflorescence a raceme or panicle in whorls of 3, branched; leaf blades flat or terete
 ⇒ Alismataceae
             21
Flowers consisting of pink petals and green-pink sepals, usually with 9 stamens and 6 carpels; inflorescence an umbel; leaf blades triquetrous in cross-section
 ⇒ Butomus umbellatus

(c) Nesterova, Svetlana - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG
(c) Danielson, Erik
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Gynoecium of 1 pistil; fruit simple, a capsule or berry; inflorescence various, terminal or axillary, but if a raceme or panicle, not with branching in whorls of 3; [upland (or very rarely wetland) plants].
             22
Leaves basal or basally disposed.
               23
Leaves 2 (rarely 3 in Convallaria in RUSCACEAE).
                 24
Inflorescence an umbel or a solitary flower; fruit a capsule; tepals separate or basally fused.
                   25
Flowers in an umbel, white; fresh plants with oniony odor
 ⇒ Alliaceae
                   25
Flowers solitary, white or yellow; fresh plants without strong odor
 ⇒ Erythronium
                 26
Inflorescence a terminal umbel; fruit a blue or black berry; tepals white or yellow; flowers bisexual
 ⇒ Clintonia
                 26
Inflorescence a terminal raceme or panicle; fruit a capsule; tepals white, green, yellowish, or pink; flowers either bisexual (Helonias in HELONIADACEAE), or unisexual and primarily on different plants (dioecious) (Chamaelirium in CHIONOGRAPHIDACEAE), or a mix of bisexual and unisexual staminate flowers (Veratrum in MELANTHIACEAE)
                   27
Inflorescences bracteate, with bracts subtending individual pedicels and (if they are present) branches of the inflorescence; tepals white, greenish-white, or cream
 ⇒ Veratrum viride
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Inflorescence ebracteate, lacking bracts subtending pedicels; flowers bisexual (Helonias) or predominantly unisexual and on different plants (dioecious) (Chamaelirium); tepals pink (Helonias) or white to cream (Chamaelirium).
                     28
Flowers white to cream; plants dioecious (individual plants either male or female, with all male flowers or all female flowers)
 ⇒ Chamaelirium luteum
               29
Leaves both cordate/subcordate (rarely merely rounded at the base) and obviously petiolate.
                 30
Inflorescence an axillary many-flowered umbel; fruit a berry; axillary tendrils often present (absent in some species)
 ⇒ Smilax
                 30
Inflorescence an axillary solitary flower, a few-flowered cyme, or a panicle; fruit a capsule (winged in Dioscorea, unwinged in Croomia); axillary tendrils never present (plant not climbing, or climbing by twining).
                   31
Tepals 6; stamens 6; flowers unisexual (and generally on separate plants, therefore dioecious); inflorescence of a solitary flowers or a panicle; ovary inferior; [widespread in our area]
 ⇒ Dioscorea
                   31
Tepals 4 (-5); stamens 4 (-5); flowers bisexual; ovary superior; [AL and adjacent GA, FL, and perhaps LA]
 ⇒ Croomia pauciflora
               29
Leaves not both cordate/subcordate and petiolate (some with cordate clasping or perfoliate leaf bases).
                 32
Leaves alternate and in whorls at some nodes; flowers orange; tepals > 5 cm long; inflorescence a terminal umbel or single flower
 ⇒ Lilium
                 32
Leaves strictly alternate (these sometimes congested apically in sterile stems of Alstroemeria); flowers yellow, white, pink, greenish, or maroon; tepals < 5 cm long; inflorescence either a terminal cluster, raceme, panicle or umbel, or an axillary raceme, cluster or solitary flower.
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Leaves alternate, but in sterile stems often appearing apically congested; inflorescence a terminal umbel; flowers slightly zygomorphic, reddish, the tepals 3.5-4.5 cm long
 ⇒ Alstroemeria pulchella

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Leaves strictly alternate; inflorescence either a terminal cluster, raceme, or panicle, or an axillary raceme, cluster or solitary flower; flowers actinomorphic, variously colored (most white or yellow), the tepals < 3.5 cm long (except Uvularia grandiflora).
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Leaves arrayed spirally around an erect, unbranched stem; fruit a septicidal capsule; flowers a mixture of bisexual and unisexual (staminate) on a plant; perianth white, greenish white, or maroon.

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Leaves basally disposed; leaves not at all to slightly plicate, 1-14 cm wide; tepals glabrous, 4-9 mm long, 1-3 mm wide (3-5 mm wide in M. hybridum), with either conspicuous (M. hybridum) or diffuse (M. parviflorum and M. woodii) glands; filaments fused to the basal claw of the tepal
 ⇒ Melanthium
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Leaves cauline; leaves strongly plicate, 6-15 cm wide; tepals pubescent, 8-13 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, with a conspicuous pair of glands near the base of the tepal blade (these sometimes more or less fused); filaments free from the tepals
 ⇒ Veratrum viride
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Leaves arrayed distichously (2 ranked) along an arching, unbranched or dichotomously (Y-forking) branched stem; fruit a berry or loculicidal capsule; flowers all bisexual; perianth white, pink, or yellow.

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Stems of fertile and sterile individuals simple (never branched); inflorescence a terminal raceme or panicle (Maianthemum) or axillary racemes or clusters of 1-9 flowers (Polygonatum); fruit a berry.
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Inflorescence terminal, a raceme or panicle; tepals separate; leaves with 3 main parallel veins, acute to acuminate at the apex; foliage green, not glaucous
 ⇒ Maianthemum
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Inflorescence of 1-several axillary flowers; tepals fused; leaves with > 7 main parallel veins, obtuse to acute at the apex; foliage blue-green, glaucous
 ⇒ Polygonatum
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Stems of fertile individuals branched (always at least bifurcate), but sterile individuals in some genera characteristically unbranched; inflorescence either of 1 (-2) flower(s) borne in a leaf axil (Uvularia, Streptopus), or of (1) 2 (-3) flowers borne terminally opposite the last leaf (Prosartes); fruit a berry or capsule.
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Leaves sessile (though sometimes slightly to strongly clasping); fruit a berry or capsule.
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Stem brown, wiry, puberulent; last 2 leaves (near stem tip) on each branch approximate to one another (sometimes subopposite) and with noticeably oblique bases; flowers and fruits terminal on the branches
 ⇒ Prosartes
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Stem green, not wiry, glabrous; last 2 leaves (near stem tip) on each branch no closer together than other leaves, with symmetrical bases; flowers (and fruits) either terminal on the branches or solitary and axillary to most leaves.
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Flowers and fruits in single terminal clusters (sometimes appearing axillary, but still only one cluster per branch of the stem); tepals pale to rich yellow
 ⇒ Uvularia
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Flowers and fruits 1 (-2) in the axils of many leaves; tepals white to pink
 ⇒ Streptopus