Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spiranthes lacera var. lacera
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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Learn more about Ladies'-tresses from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes lacera var. lacera
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Spiranthes lacera var. lacera
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Spiranthes lacera var. lacera
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Spiranthes gracilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Spiranthes lacera
COMMON NAME:
Northern Slender Ladies'-tresses
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spiranthes lacera var. lacera
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes lacera var. lacera
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Spiranthes lacera var. lacera
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Spiranthes lacera var. lacera
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Spiranthes gracilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Spiranthes lacera
2727
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Clearings, openings, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal
FLOWER:
Summer
White
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:
Summer?
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p054?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p029
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