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Question: For a flower that has ONLY sepals or ONLY petals - how do you determine if this flower has sepals …

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  For a flower that has ONLY sepals or ONLY petals - how do you determine if this flower has sepals or petals?

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  Dear mcyr1313, the answer to this is generally a case by case basis. But, in the simplest terms, if a flower has only a single whorl of perianth parts (sepals, petals, corono), then by convention they are referred to as sepals. If they are brightly pigmented, then they are referred to as petaloid sepals. Examples of this include members of the genus Anemone, Caltha, and Clematis.