2143

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in Mountains)

Look for it in savannas, bogs, moist roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, with bracts upward

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Orange
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

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p228
• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p217
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p265
• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p185
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p176
• Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History p130
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p400
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p459
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p027
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p199

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Platanthera cristata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera cristata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 049-03-015:
Habenaria cristata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Blephariglottis cristata