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Common Name:
Pink Lady's Slipper, Mocassin Flower
The inflated lower petal forms a moccasin-like pouch 1.5-2" long, per Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition.
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Common Name:
Large Yellow Lady's Slipper
Sepals & lateral petals greenish-brown/brownish-yellow, pouch 1" or more, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Small Yellow Lady's Slipper
Lateral petals & sepals dark reddish-brown, yellow pouch less than 1" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Kentucky Yellow Lady's Slipper
Purple-brown sepals & twisted petals; the lip a creamy to dull yellow pouch, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Common Name:
Showy Lady's Slipper, Queen Lady's Slipper
Petals white, spreading, narrowly oblong. Lip is a white-streaked rose pouch, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
Common Name:
White Lady's Slipper
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Common Name:
Showy Orchis
Helmet magenta-purple, lavender or white; lip usually but not always white, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Green Fringed Orchid, Ragged Fringed Orchid, Ragged Orchid
The lip is divided into 3 lobes, each consisting of hairlike separations, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Small Purple Fringed Orchid, Butterfly Orchid
Lip with 3 heavily fringed lobes. Nectary opening usually barbell-shaped, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Large Purple Fringed Orchid, Plume-royal
A squarish to roundish (never dumbbell-shaped) opening at lip base, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Purple Fringeless Orchid, Purple Spire Orchid, Pride-of-the-peak
Lip petal split into 3 widely spreading lobes, margin serrated not fringed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Michaux's Orchid, Long-horned Habenaria
"Quinqueseta" refers to conspicuous hornlike lobes of lip & lateral petals, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Water-spider Orchid, Floating Orchid
The petals and lip resemble spider legs splayed against the plant's sepals, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
Common Name:
Large Round-leaved Orchid, Dinner-plate Orchid
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Common Name:
Yellow Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Orchid, Golden Fringeless Orchid
Lip petal with tiny rounded teeth (not fringed), per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Snowy Orchid, Bog-spike
Flowers so white as to seem illuminated from within. Lip entire. Spur 11-23mm, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Tubercled Orchid, Southern Rein Orchid, Southern Gypsy-spike
A loose terminal spike of 10-40 yellowish-green flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Small Green Wood Orchid, Club-spur Orchid, Woodland Orchid, Streamhead Orchid
The lip of each 1/4" flower is slightly larger at its 3-lobed tip, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
Common Name:
Small White Fringed Orchid
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Common Name:
Large White Fringed Orchid, Southern White Fringed Orchid
Lip has a filiform fringe & a distinct isthmus. Spur often to 3" long, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Monkey-face Orchid, White Fringeless Orchid
Similar to P. blephariglottis var. conspicua, except its lip is unfringed, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Yellow Fringed Orchid
Half-inch-long narrow lip completely bordered by a fine feathery fringing, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Crested Fringed Orchid, Golden Fringed Orchid
Flowers about half the size of P. ciliaris, with less extensive fringing, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Kidneyleaf Twayblade, Appalachian Twayblade, Small's Twayblade
Lip broadens into 2 rounded flat lobes with a tiny tooth between the lobes, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Southern Twayblade
The half-inch flowers usually reddish-purple, pinkish, or purplish-green, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Nodding Pogonia, Three Birds Orchid, Nodding Ettercap
Petals and sepals may be pure white or white tipped with pink or purple, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Large Whorled Pogonia, Larger Five-leaves
3 long, narrow sepals are light green at base, dark purplish-brown at tips, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Small Whorled Pogonia, Little Five-leaves
The flower is surrounded by three 1" sepals the same color as the leaves, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Rose Pogonia, Snakemouth Orchid, Beardflower, Addermouth
Sepals and petals usually pink, the lip tipped with deep purplish magenta, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Rosebud Orchid, Large Spreading Pogonia
Flower color is generally pink, vs. the mostly white-flowered C. bifaria, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Appalachian Small Spreading Pogonia, Smaller Rosebud Orchid, Upland Spreading Pogonia
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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Common Name:
Bog-rose, Dragon's-mouth, Arethusa
Petals and sepals generally point upward; lip curls downward like a tongue, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Bearded Grass-pink
Distinguished by cluster of 3-6 flowers all opening about the same time, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Common Grass-pink
Upper petal (lip) narrow, spreading to a triangular tip w orange bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Pale Grass-pink
Lateral sepals distinctively reflexed backward w their apices behind flower, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Many-flowered Grass-pink
Petals widest above the middle, with a narrow base and bluntly pointed tip, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia.
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Common Name:
Oklahoma Grass-pink
Dilated distal portion of middle lip lobe triangular to braodly rounded, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Shadow Witch, Ponthieu's Orchid, Shadow-witch Orchid
Flowers white with green stripes, positioned horizonatally - "pointing up", per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Lesser Ladies'-tresses, Oval Ladies'-tresses
The 1/4" flowers are aligned in 3 fairly vertical ranks, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Nodding Ladies'-tresses
Flowers' base arched prominently downward, giving flwrs a nodding posture, per Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
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Common Name:
Great Plains Ladies'-tresses
Lip oval, without the dilation seen in S. cernua, its center pale yellow, per Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
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Common Name:
Yellow Ladies-tresses, Yellow Nodding Ladies'-tresses
These flowers are usually more yellowish than the bright white S. cernua, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Fragrant Ladies'-tresses, Marsh Ladies'-tresses
Flowers strongly fragrant, white w a creamy or greenish-yellow lip center, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Little Ladies'-tresses, Little Pearl-twist
Plants may exhibit flowers in either a tight or a loose spiral, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Eaton's Ladies'-tresses
The tiny flowers are only 1/6" long, bright white with a green spot on lip, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Southern Slender Ladies'-tresses
Distinguished by the green spot on the lip, which has a white edge, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Florida Ladies'-tresses
Easily confused with S. brevilabris, but glabrous (not densely pubescent), per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Long-lipped Ladies'-tresses, Giant Spiral Orchid
These flowers are arranged in a tight single rank or are sometimes secund, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Grass-leaved Ladies'-tresses, Giant Ladies'-tresses
Lip has green veins radiating from its center. Lateral sepals appressed, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Woodland Ladies'-tresses, Pale Green Ladies'-tresses
Flowers a creamy green (vs. the bright white of S. praecox), per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Spring Ladies'-tresses
Unique in its orange/brown spots on lip & pointed hairs on stem & flowers, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Common Name:
Lace-lip Ladies'-tresses, Lace-lip Spiral Orchid
Flowers in a very loose spiral or sometimes secund, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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