FLOWERS: White, lip often spotted green with brown streaks, borne on a short, densely bracted terminal inflorescence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Trees with alternate pinnate leaves and monoecious bracted flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

Red-bracted forms are the most popular but white, pink and blends are also available.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

Pistillate flowers bracted with a three to five, normally four-lobed calyx and sometimes with petals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

Now two of them bear their flowers in bracted whorls, condensed into umbels at the summits of a scape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

“In December wild flowers are rare till after Christmas, when the long-bracted orchid, the purple anemone, and the violet make their appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Calyx 5-parted, bracted at base; corolla irregular broadly tubular, 2-lipped; upper lip arched, swollen, slightly notched;, lower lip 3-lobed, spreading, woolly within; 5 stamens, 1 sterile, 4 in pairs, anther-bearing, woolly; 1 pistil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

Inflorescence appearing with the leaves in spring; sterile catkins from terminal or lateral buds on shoots of the preceding year, bracted, usually several in a cluster, unbranched, long, cylindrical, pendulous; bracts of sterile flowers minute, soon falling; calyx parted or lobed; stamens 3-12, undivided: fertile flowers terminal or axillary upon the new shoots, single or few-clustered, bracted, erect; involucre scaly, becoming the cupule or cup around the lower part of the acorn; ovary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

= -- Flowers in June along the base of the season's shoots; sterile and fertile flowers usually on separate trees, -- the sterile in loose, few-flowered clusters, the fertile mostly solitary; peduncles and pedicels slender, bracted midway; calyx persistent, with 4 pointed, ciliate teeth; corolla white, monopetalous, with 4 roundish, oblong divisions; stamens 4, alternating with and shorter than the lobes of the corolla in the fertile flowers, but longer in the sterile; ovary green, nearly cylindrical, surmounted by the sessile, 4-lobed stigma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference