Yeatesia viridiflora (Nees) Small. Common name: Yellow Bractspike. Phenology: Apr-Oct. Habitat: Rich bottomlands, calcareous river bluffs and hammocks, prairies, marshes. Distribution: Sw. GA and Panhandle FL west to TX (Kartesz 1999). See Sorrie & LeBlond (2008) for additional distributional information. Discovered in s. SC in 2021 by John Nelson (K. Bradley, pers. comm. 2021). Just reaching the southwest portion of the Alabama Ridge and Valley Province in Bibb County (B. Keener, pers. comm. 2022).
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = Fl6, K4, NS, POWO, S, Tx, WH3, Wasshausen (1998); = Dicliptera halei Riddell; = Dicliptera viridiflora (Nees) R.W.Long — Long (1970); = n/a — RAB; > Yeatesia laetivirens (Buckley) Small; Rhytiglossa viridiflora Nees — (basionym)
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW
- Great Plains: FACW
Heliophily ⓘ: 2
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