OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes praecox   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Spiranthes sylvatica

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

Spiranthes praecox

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-006?:

Spiranthes praecox   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Ibidium praecox

 

COMMON NAME:
Woodland Ladies'-tresses, Pale Green Ladies'-tresses


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image of Spiranthes sylvatica, Woodland Ladies'-tresses, Pale Green Ladies'-tresses

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ibpr_001_lvd

        

image of Spiranthes sylvatica, Woodland Ladies'-tresses, Pale Green Ladies'-tresses

Jim Fowler    jafssylvatica_3

April    Levy County    FL

image of Spiranthes sylvatica, Woodland Ladies'-tresses, Pale Green Ladies'-tresses

Jim Fowler    jafssylvatica_4

April    Levy County    FL

Flowers a creamy green (vs. the bright white of S. praecox), per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

 

 

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes praecox   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Spiranthes praecox

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-006?:
Spiranthes praecox   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ibidium praecox

 

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2157

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Pine-oak forests and woodlands, live oak hammocks, interdune swales, rich dry forests, other woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal (when present)

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White (marked with green)
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
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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