''Viburnum bracteatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the

Adoxaceae Adoxaceae, commonly known as moschatel family, is a small family of flowering plants in the order Dipsacales, now consisting of five genera and about 150–200 species. They are characterised by opposite toothed leaves, small five- or, more rare ...

known by the common names bracted arrowwood and limerock arrowwood. It is native to the southeastern United States, where it is limited to

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, and

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.''Viburnum bracteatum''.
Center for Plant Conservation. Some authors include ''Viburnum ozarkense'' in this species, which would expand its distribution westward.Estes, D. (2010)
''Viburnum bracteatum'' (Adoxaceae) expanded to include ''Viburnum ozarkense''.
''Castanea'' 75(2) 277-93. Other authors include ''V. ozarkense'' in ''

Viburnum molle ''Viburnum molle'', commonly called softleaf arrowwood, is a species of flowering plant in the moschatel family (Adoxaceae). It is native to the eastern United States, where it restricted to the Midwest and Upper South The Upland South and Upp ...

'', or retain it as a distinct species.Weckman, T. J. (2002)
Reinstatement of ''Viburnum ozarkense'' (Caprifoliaceae): An endemic taxon of the interior highlands of Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
''Sida'' 20(2) 849-60. ''Viburnum bracteatum'' is a

deciduous In the fields of horticulture and Botany, the term ''deciduous'' () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, ...

shrub with spreading and arching branches reaching up to 3 meters tall. The bark is smooth and gray in color. The oppositely arranged leaves have blades up to 12 centimeters long. They have toothed edges, with about one tooth per centimeter. The blades are borne on short petioles. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

is 4 to 6 centimeters wide with conspicuous bracts at the base. The flower has a circular corolla of five white petals about 8 millimeters across and five stamens tipped with yellow anthers. The fruit is a bluish black drupe about a centimeter wide. The fruits are eaten by birds, small mammals, and deer.''Viburnum bracteatum''.
NatureServe. This plant grows in wooded areas with

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

substrates. The overstory includes several types of

oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ''L ...

and '' Carya ovata'' var. ''australis''. There are about eleven occurrences of this rare plant, but only five are considered to be viable. It is threatened by limestone mining. This activity has destroyed or partially destroyed populations in the past.

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