NameThatPlant.net: Calopogon pallidus

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Calopogon pallidus FAMILY Orchidaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

You may enjoy reading Orchids of the Francis Marion National Forest by Jim Fowler.

Learn more about Pale Grass-pink from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calopogon pallidus FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-10-003:
Calopogon pallidus FAMILY Orchidaceae

COMMON NAME:
Pale Grass-pink

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image of Calopogon pallidus, Pale Grass-pink

JK Marlow jkm0505u_08

May Williamsburg County SC

Flowers typically open one at a time sequentially up the stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.

Jim Fowler jafcop_0003b

May-July Berkeley County SC

Francis Marion National Forest

Lateral sepals are curved toward the stem and petals are curved forward, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.

Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_pallidus_palec

August

Lateral sepals distinctively reflexed backward w their apices behind flower, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Calopogon pallidus FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calopogon pallidus FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-10-003:
Calopogon pallidus FAMILY Orchidaceae

1964

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon, a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic

Look for it in savannas, sandhill seeps, per Weakley's Flora

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rose-pink/ 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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

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