Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spiranthes tuberosa
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Spiranthes from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes tuberosa
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Spiranthes tuberosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Spiranthes tuberosa
INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-003:
Spiranthes grayi FAMILY Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ibidium beckii
COMMON NAME:
Little Ladies'-tresses, Little Pearl-twist
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Plants may exhibit flowers in either a tight or a loose spiral, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spiranthes tuberosa
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes tuberosa
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Spiranthes tuberosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Spiranthes tuberosa
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-003:
Spiranthes grayi
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ibidium beckii
1951
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: In a wide variety of habitats, especially relatively well-drained woodlands and fields, longleaf pine sandhills, dry hammocks, dry pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Bisexual
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
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p026
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p074
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p407
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005) p212
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p406
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p029
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p054