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Learn more about Malaxis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

Distinctive features include a cylindrical raceme of 10 to 100+ tiny green flowers, and one bright green stem leaf, from which it gets the specific epithet, “unifolia”. Read more in the Green Adder's-mouth (Malaxis unifolia) fact sheet from the Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Malaxis unifolia   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Malaxis unifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Malaxis unifolia

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-14-002:

Malaxis unifolia   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Malaxis unifolia

COMMON NAME:
Green Adder's-mouth

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Keith Bradley    kab_malaxis_unifolia_6215

May    Richland County    SC

Congaree National Park

Many flowers in a terminal raceme, the upper part densely packed, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

Keith Bradley    kab_malaxis_unifolia_6225

May    Richland County    SC

Congaree National Park

Flowers arranged in a spiral, each < 1/8" wide and with a toothed lip, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

Keith Bradley    kab_malaxis_unifolia_6256

May    Richland County    SC

Congaree National Park

There is only one leaf, midway up the stem, broadly ovate to roundish, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

 COMPARE Adder's Mouth and Adder's Tongue

JK Marlow    jkm0508b_27

August    Transylvania County    NC

Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Malaxis unifolia   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Malaxis unifolia

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-14-002:
Malaxis unifolia   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Malaxis unifolia