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Your search found 74 taxa in the family Orchidaceae, Orchid family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Pink Lady's Slipper, Mocassin Flower
Look for it in dry to mesic, acid forests & woodlands, often under pine or other conifers
Common (uncommon in GA-SC Piedmont, rare in SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large Yellow Lady's Slipper
Look for it in rich mesic forests
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small Yellow Lady's Slipper
Look for it in mesic forests, seepy forests over amphibolite, other habitats
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Kentucky Yellow Lady's Slipper
Look for it in sandy ravine bottoms and springhead seeps along small streams
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Showy Lady's Slipper, Queen Lady's Slipper
Look for it over circumneutral to basic rocks, or (allegedly) in mossy wet forests under Rhododendron
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia (doubtfully to NC)
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Common Name:
White Lady's Slipper
Look for it in calcareous barrens and bluffs
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Showy Orchis
Look for it in deciduous forests, most typically over calcareous or mafic rocks
Common (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ragged Fringed Orchid, Green Fringed Orchid, Ragged Orchid
Look for it in swamps, bogs, seepages
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small Purple Fringed Orchid, Butterfly Orchid, Lesser Purple Fringed Orchid
Look for it in northern hardwood forests, other moist forests, seepages, bogs
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large Purple Fringed Orchid, Plume-royal, Greater Purple Fringed Orchid
Look for it in bogs, seepages, moist places at high elevations
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Fringeless Orchid, Purple Spire Orchid, Pride-of-the-peak
Look for it in bogs, seepages, moist forests, moist meadows
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Michaux's Orchid, Long-horned Habenaria
Look for it in wet pine flatwoods, moist hardwood hammocks, Altamaha Grit outcrops, ditches
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Water-spider Orchid, Floating Orchid
Look for it in blackwater swamps, pools, banks of creeks and rivers
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large Round-leaved Orchid, Dinner-plate Orchid
Look for it in moist hardwood forests, esp over amphibolite
Uncommon (rare in Piedmont)
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Yellow Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Orchid, Golden Fringeless Orchid
Look for it in savannas in the Coastal Plain, bogs in the Mountains & Piedmont
Rare, essentially endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Snowy Orchid, Bog-spike
Look for it in wet savannas
Uncommon (rare in NC-SC), essentially a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tubercled Orchid, Southern Rein Orchid, Southern Gypsy-spike
Look for it in shaded wet places, such as swampy forests
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in bogs, seepages
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small Green Wood Orchid, Club-spur Orchid, Woodland Orchid, Streamhead Orchid
Look for it in seepages, bogs, swamps, other wet places
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Small White Fringed Orchid
Look for it in seepages, sandhill-pocosin ecotones
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large White Fringed Orchid, Southern White Fringed Orchid
Look for it in savannas, seepages, sandhill-pocosin ecotones
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Monkey-face Orchid, White Fringeless Orchid
Look for it in bogs, red maple-gum swamps, seeps and streambanks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Fringed Orchid
Look for it in savannas, moist roadbanks, meadows, pastures, bogs
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Crested Fringed Orchid, Golden Fringed Orchid
Look for it in savannas, bogs, moist roadsides
Uncommon (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Kidneyleaf Twayblade, Appalachian Twayblade, Small's Twayblade
Look for it in shaded swamps, wet slopes, nearly always beneath Rhododendron maximum
Uncommon (rare in GA, SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Twayblade
Look for it in swamps, second terraces in floodplain forests, wet woods under Rhododendron maximum
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Three Birds Orchid, Nodding Pogonia, Nodding Ettercap
Look for it in humid forests & swamps, rhododendron thickets, esp on rotten logs or on humus, in the mountains often under hemlock
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large Whorled Pogonia, Larger Five-leaves
Look for it in moist to dry forests
Uncommon to rare in GA, NC, SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small Whorled Pogonia, Little Five-leaves
Look for it in moist forests, in the mountains and upper Piedmont usually with Pinus strobus
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rose Pogonia, Snakemouth Orchid, Beardflower, Addermouth
Look for it in savannas, bogs, esp in open peaty or gravely situations
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rosebud Orchid, Large Spreading Pogonia
Look for it in pine savannas, Coastal Plain seepage bogs
Uncommon in Coastal Plain of NC-SC, rare elsewhere (endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Small Spreading Pogonia, Smaller Rosebud Orchid, Upland Spreading Pogonia
Look for it in moist to fairly dry meadows, dry ridgetops under pines (where seasonally moist)
Uncommon (rare in GA), endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in savannas, sandhill seeps
Uncommon (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bog-rose, Dragon's-mouth, Arethusa
Look for it in bogs
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Bearded Grass-pink
Look for it in savannas, sandhill seeps, pitcher-plant bogs
Uncommon (rare in NC-SC), a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Grass-pink
Look for it in savannas, sandhill seeps, floating peat mats, in Piedmont & Mountains in bogs
Uncommon (rare in Mountains & Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pale Grass-pink
Look for it in savannas, sandhill seeps
Uncommon, a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Many-flowered Grass-pink
Look for it in moderately well-drained soils of pine savannas and pine flatwoods (often with Serenoa repens)
Rare, a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Oklahoma Grass-pink
Look for it in pine savannas, prairies
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shadow Witch, Ponthieu's Orchid, Shadow-witch Orchid
Look for it in bottomlands, floodplains, moist ravines, nearly always over calcareous rock ("marl") or coquina limestone
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lesser Ladies'-tresses, Oval Ladies'-tresses, October Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in swamp forests, bottomland forests, hammocks, ravine forests
Uncommon (rare in GA, rare in SC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in swamp forests, mesic ravines
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Nodding Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in bogs, swamps, ditches, usually in acidic, sphagnous situations
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Great Plains Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in grassy barrens and glades over limestone
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Yellow Ladies'-tresses, Yellow Nodding Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in meadows and pastures at moderate to high elevations, up to at least 1500m in elevation
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Fragrant Ladies'-tresses, Marsh Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in swamps and marshes
Uncommon, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Little Ladies'-tresses, Little Pearl-twist
Look for it in a wide variety of habitats, esp relatively well-drained woodlands and fields, sandhills, dry hammocks, dry pine flatwoods
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in pine savannas
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eaton's Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in pine savannas, dry to moist pine flatwoods
Uncommon in NC-SC, rare in GA
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in clearings, openings
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Southern Slender Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in fields, meadows, pastures, woodlands
Uncommon (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in wet savannas, other moist sites
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Long-lipped Ladies'-tresses, Giant Spiral Orchid, Giant Spiral Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in wet savannas
Rare, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Grassleaf Ladies'-tresses, Giant Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in savannas, swamps, bogs
Common in GA-SC Coastal Plain (uncommon or rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Woodland Ladies'-tresses, Pale Green Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in live oak hammocks, other woodlands
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spring Ladies'-tresses
Look for it in savannas, bogs, marshes, fairly dry fields
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lacelip Ladies'-tresses, Lace-lip Spiral Orchid
Look for it in pond cypress depressions and savannas, swamps
Rare, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in sunny seepage over amphibolite or other basic rock, moist banks and shores
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain, Downy Rattlesnake-orchid
Look for it in dry to moist forests & woodlands
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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