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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spiranthes cernua
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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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 Nodding Ladies'-tresses from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes cernua
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Spiranthes cernua
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Spiranthes cernua
INCLUDING Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Spiranthes parksii
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Spiranthes cernua var. cernua
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-002a:
Spiranthes cernua var. cernua FAMILY Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ibidium cernuum
COMMON NAME:
Nodding Ladies'-tresses
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ibce_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_spce_012_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm201015_7741
October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm201015_7760
October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm201015_7762
October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm211027_4632
October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm231025_6301
October Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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Keith Bradley kab_s_cernua_2873
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Flowers arranged in more than one rank, each rank spiraling upward, per Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachian Mountains (Bentley, 2000).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_cernua_cropped
October
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_spiranthes_cernua
October
Flowers' base arched prominently downward, giving flwrs a nodding posture, per Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachian Mountains (Bentley, 2000).
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Ron Lance rwl_spiranthes_cernua
October Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
Plants may be up to a foot high, per Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachian Mountains (Bentley, 2000).
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Steve Marlow snm101022_015
October Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Steve Marlow snm101022_019
October Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Steve Marlow snm101022_025
October Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spiranthes cernua
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes cernua
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Spiranthes cernua
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Spiranthes cernua
INCLUDING
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Spiranthes parksii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Spiranthes cernua var. cernua
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-002a:
Spiranthes cernua var. cernua
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ibidium cernuum
1456
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: bogs, swamps, ditches, usually in acidic, sphagnous situations, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
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/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p132
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p026
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p073
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p177
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p053
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p405
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005) p168
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p405
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p446
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p028
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p277
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