NameThatPlant.net: Spiranthes ovalis var. ovalis

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

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

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes ovalis var. ovalis FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Spiranthes ovalis var. ovalis

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

Spiranthes ovalis var. ovalis

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Spiranthes ovalis

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

Ibidium ovale

COMMON NAME:
Oval Ladies'-tresses

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image of Spiranthes ovalis var. ovalis, Oval Ladies'-tresses

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ibov_001_lvd

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes ovalis var. ovalis FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Spiranthes ovalis

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

2730

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: swamp forests, mesic ravines, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

FLOWER:
Fall
White
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:
Fall?
Capsule

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

Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p177

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