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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cleistesiopsis divaricata
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 Rosebud Orchid from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes divaricata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Pogonia divaricata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Cleistes divaricata
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-08-001:
Cleistes divaricata FAMILY Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cleistes divaricata var. divaricata
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cleistes divaricata
COMMON NAME:
Large Dragonhead Pogonia, Rosebud Orchid, Large Spreading Pogonia
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_podi9_001_lvd
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Jim Fowler jafcleiste_single5050521
May Brunswick County NC
Green Swamp
Flower color is generally pink, vs. the mostly white-flowered C. bifaria, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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JK Marlow jkm0505s_24
May Williamsburg County SC
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Jim Fowler jafcle_0004
May-June Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Narrow mahogany-colored sepals stretch upward, are about as long as petals, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cleistesiopsis divaricata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes divaricata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Pogonia divaricata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Cleistes divaricata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-08-001:
Cleistes divaricata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cleistes divaricata var. divaricata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cleistes divaricata
1985
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: pine savannas, Coastal Plain seepage bogs, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Corolla magenta-pink
/Sepals brownish-maroon
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
Corolla tubular, 3 petals, the two lateral similar & a third (the lip) enlarged
stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p099
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p262
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p369
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p420
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p038
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p315
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p179
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p177
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p052
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p398
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005) p032
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p390
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p023
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p203
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