NameThatPlant.net: Habenaria repens

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Habenaria repens FAMILY Orchidaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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Learn more about Water-spider Orchid from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria repens FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Habenaria repens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Habenaria repens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-006:

Habenaria repens FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Habenaria repens

COMMON NAME:
Water-spider Orchid, Floating Orchid

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image of Habenaria repens, Water-spider Orchid, Floating Orchid

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May-October Berkeley County SC

Francis Marion National Forest

The petals and lip resemble spider legs splayed against the plant's sepals, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Habenaria repens FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria repens FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Habenaria repens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Habenaria repens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-006:
Habenaria repens FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Habenaria repens

2139

Aquatic or terrestrial; Forb
Perennial

Habitat: blackwater swamps, pools, banks of creeks and rivers, marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in NC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
"Leafy"

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Greenish
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:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

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