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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Spiranthes lucida   FAMILY Orchidaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes lucida   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Spiranthes lucida

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

Spiranthes lucida

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Ibidium plantagineum

 

COMMON NAME:
 Shining Ladies'-tresses

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image of Spiranthes lucida, Shining Ladies'-tresses

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ibpl_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Spiranthes lucida   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes lucida   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
 Spiranthes lucida

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
 Spiranthes lucida

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Ibidium plantagineum

 

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2728

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Sunny seepage over amphibolite or other basic rock, moist banks and shores, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White (with yellow or orange-yellow lip & greenish "V")
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:
Spring/Summer?
Capsule

 

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