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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes eatonii   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Spiranthes lacera var. eatonii

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

Spiranthes eatonii

 

COMMON NAME:
Eaton's Ladies'-tresses


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image of Spiranthes eatonii, Eaton's Ladies'-tresses

Jim Fowler    jafseatonii_group

April    Levy County    FL

image of Spiranthes eatonii, Eaton's Ladies'-tresses

Jim Fowler    jafspi_eat

April    Levy County    FL

The tiny flowers are only 1/6" long, bright white with a green spot on lip, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes eatonii   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Spiranthes lacera var. eatonii

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2149

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine savannas, dry to moist pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Carolinas, rare in GA

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

FLOWER:
Spring
White (with green spot)
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
Capsule

 

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