Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Cleistesiopsis bifaria
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Cleistesiopsis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes bifaria
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-08-001?:
Cleistes divaricata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cleistes divaricata var. bifaria
COMMON NAME:
Appalachian Small Spreading Pogonia, Smaller Rosebud Orchid, Upland Spreading Pogonia
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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Diane Creaton dmc_052415_064
May Pickens County SC
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Diane Creaton dmc_052415_073
May Pickens County SC
The protruding lip has purple markings and a blotch of yellow bristles, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Jim Fowler jafcleiste_single2050521
May Brunswick County NC
Green Swamp
Narrow mahogany-colored sepals stretch upward, are about as long as petals, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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JK Marlow jkm160531_023
May Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
A solitary leaf about halfway up the stem & one leaf bract at ovary base, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Steve Marlow snm160531_029
May Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bifaria_0546
June Burke County NC
Pisgah National Forest
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bifaria_0565
June Burke County NC
Pisgah National Forest
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bifaria_0585
June Burke County NC
Pisgah National Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Cleistesiopsis bifaria
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes bifaria
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-08-001?:
Cleistes divaricata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cleistes divaricata var. bifaria
2133
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in GA), endemic
Look for it in moist to fairly dry meadows, dry ridgetops under pines (where seasonally moist), per Weakley's Flora
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
Corolla mostly white (pinkish)
/Sepals brownish-maroon
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
Corolla tubular, 3 petals, the two lateral similar & a third (the lip) enlarged
stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p099?
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p262?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p052?
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History p028?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p023?
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p203?