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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cleistesiopsis bifaria
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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Learn more about Cleistesiopsis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes bifaria
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Cleistes bifaria
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-08-001?:
Cleistes divaricata FAMILY Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cleistes divaricata var. bifaria
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cleistes divaricata
COMMON NAME:
Appalachian Dragonhead Pogonia, Appalachian Small Spreading Pogonia, Smaller Rosebud Orchid, Upland Spreading Pogonia
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Betsy George bmg_051822_8006
May Greenville County SC
Green Mountain Preserve
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Diane Creaton dmc_052415_073
May Pickens County SC
The protruding lip has purple markings and a blotch of yellow bristles, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).
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Jim Fowler jafcleiste_single2050521
May Brunswick County NC
Green Swamp
Narrow mahogany-colored sepals stretch upward, are about as long as petals, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm160531_023
May Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
A solitary leaf about halfway up the stem & one leaf bract at ovary base, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm220525_8015
May Greenville County SC
Green Mountain Preserve
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Steve Marlow snm160531_029
May Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bifaria_0565
June Burke County NC
Pisgah National Forest
Sepals (24-) 30-40 (-55) mm long; petals 21-36 mm long, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bifaria_0585
June Burke County NC
Pisgah National Forest
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Penny Longhurst pen_20230609_151048
June Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Distance between median leaf and floral bract 3-16cm, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Penny Longhurst pen_20230703_091838b
July Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
The basal 3/4 of the central keel of the lip with 5-7 discontinuous and irregular ridges, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cleistesiopsis bifaria
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes bifaria
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Cleistes bifaria
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-08-001?:
Cleistes divaricata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Cleistes divaricata var. bifaria
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cleistes divaricata
2133
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist to fairly dry meadows, dry ridgetops under pines (where seasonally moist), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Carolina Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Corolla mostly white (pinkish)
/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) p195
- 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) p028?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p023?
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p203?
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