OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Cleistesiopsis oricamporum   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes bifaria   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of Virginia (Weakley, Ludwig & Townsend, 2012)
 Cleistesiopsis 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

 

COMMON NAME:
 Coastal Plain Small Spreading Pogonia

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Cleistesiopsis oricamporum   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes bifaria   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of Virginia (Weakley, Ludwig & Townsend, 2012)
 Cleistesiopsis 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

 

Find by scientific name:

3886

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in GA)

Look for it in savannas, sandhill seeps, per Weakley's Flora

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

 

LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Corolla mostly white (pinkish) /Sepals brownish-maroon
Bisexual
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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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