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

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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

 

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

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p099?
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p262?
• Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History p028?
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p203?

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