Here's a plant for which the #Sepals are a useful ID feature - Bulbous Buttercup in which the sepals fold back along the stem rather than clinging to the petals as in several other common buttercup species. #WildflowerHour #Swindon #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

A comparison of the petals & #Sepals of two tiny white flowers seen in abundance today alongside at old track at Streatley (W. Berks) - little mouse-ear (cerastium semidecandrum) and common chickweed (stellaria media). #wildflowerhour

Front and rear views of a flower of common stork's-bill (erodium cicutarium) showing the green stripes and bristly tips of its #Sepals, from a walk at Streatley (W.Berks), 30/3. #wildflowerhour

First flowers of rue-leaved saxifrage (saxifraga tridactylites) now showing, seen today on a section of old pavement at Streatley (W. Berks). The second picture provides a side view of the oval shaped #Sepals. #wildflowerhour

#Sepals are usually green and protect the developing flower buds, but when sepals and petals are indistinguishable from each other, they are called tepals. Some plants, like the Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa) don't have petals at all. The flowers are made entirely from sepals.
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