OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae   NEW! Click to go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
 Habenaria quinqueseta

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-005:
 Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Habenaria quinqueseta

 

COMMON NAME:
 Michaux's Orchid, Long-horned Habenaria

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image of Habenaria quinqueseta, Michaux's Orchid, Long-horned Habenaria

Jim Fowler    jafhabquinqu_close030913

September    Levy County    FL

Goethe State Forest

"Quinqueseta" refers to conspicuous hornlike lobes of lip & lateral petals, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.

image of Habenaria quinqueseta, Michaux's Orchid, Long-horned Habenaria

Jim Fowler    jafhabquinqu_group030913

September    Levy County    FL

Goethe State Forest

Leaves 6-25cm x 2.5-6cm, reduced above to clasping, ovate, acuminate bracts, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
 Habenaria quinqueseta

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-005:
 Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Habenaria quinqueseta

 

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2137

Forb
Perennial

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Habitat: Wet to mesic pine flatwoods, moist hardwood hammocks, Altamaha Grit outcrops, pine rocklands, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, with floral bracts upward

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Greenish-white
Bisexual
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

Raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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