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Pond Cypress,
Taxodium ascendens
Leaves mostly keeled, spirally appressed, and not in a single plane, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
American Arborvitae,
Thuja occidentalis
Leaves opposite, scale-like, in pairs (the side pairs keeled, others flat), per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
Rescue Grass,
Bromus catharticus var. catharticus
Lemmas compressed & strongly keeled (entire spikelet thus laterally flattened), per Weakley's Flora.
Granite Flatsedge,
Cyperus granitophilus
Leaf blades strongly keeled, sheaths reddish, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Tall Nutrush,
Scleria triglomerata
Leaves hairless, grasslike, upper leaf blades folded and keeled, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
Spreading Sedge,
Carex laxiculmis
Pistillate scales keeled, midribs green, margins hyaline (or reddish-brown), per Flora of North America.
Eastern Turkeybeard,
Xerophyllum asphodeloides
Leaf blades filiform-linear, keeled, rigid, margins serrulate, apex wiry pointed, densely tufted, per Flora of North America.
Large Purple Fringed Orchid,
Platanthera grandiflora
Leaves alternate, lanceolate, keeled, to 8" long, sheathing the lower stem, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
Small Green Wood Orchid,
Platanthera clavellata
Usually 1 major leaf, low but not basal, clasping, keeled, oblanceolate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
Pecan,
Carya illinoinensis
Husk of fruits is about 1mm thick and winged or keeled, per Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988).
Common Climbing Buckwheat,
Fallopia scandens
Calyx with a distinctly wavy or tattered margin and wing-keeled in fruit, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
Alligator-weed,
Alternanthera philoxeroides
Bracts not keeled. Peduncles 1-7cm, from the leaf axils or terminal, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
Oriental Bittersweet,
Celastrus orbiculatus
Buds 6-scaled, often projecting at right angles from the twig, bud scales keeled and spine-tipped, per Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee (Jones & Wofford, 2013).
Appalachian Bindweed,
Convolvulus species 2
Here ssp. appalachiana has strongly keeled bracts with overlapping bases, per Key to the Bindweeds (Calystegia/Convolvulus, Convolvulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding, 2013).