NameThatPlant.net: Habenaria repens

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Habenaria repens 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 Water-spider Orchid from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria repens FAMILY Orchidaceae

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)
Habenaria repens

COMMON NAME:
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.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Habenaria repens FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria repens FAMILY Orchidaceae

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)
Habenaria repens

2139

Aquatic or terrestrial; Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in NC)

Look for it in blackwater swamps, pools, banks of creeks and rivers, 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
"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

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