1930

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in GA)

Look for it in seepages, sandhill-pocosin ecotones, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, with floral bracts upward

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
3 petals, the two lateral similar and a third (the lip) enlarged
stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary

Raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p228?
• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p149
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p042
• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p072
• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p185
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p176
• Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p043
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p049
• Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History p122
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p027
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p174

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Platanthera blephariglottis   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera blephariglottis var. blephariglottis   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-013a:
Habenaria blephariglottis var. blephariglottis   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (POSSIBLY MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Blephariglottis blephariglottis

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Blephariglottis albiflora