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



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes bifaria   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

Cleistes 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

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

Cleistes divaricata

 

COMMON NAME:
Appalachian Dragonhead Pogonia, Appalachian Small Spreading Pogonia, Smaller Rosebud Orchid, Upland Spreading Pogonia


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Betsy George    bmg_051822_8006

May    Greenville County    SC

Green Mountain Preserve

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Diane Creaton    dmc_052415_073

May    Pickens County    SC

The protruding lip has purple markings and a blotch of yellow bristles, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

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Jim Fowler    jafcleiste_single2050521

May    Brunswick County    NC

Green Swamp

Narrow mahogany-colored sepals stretch upward, are about as long as petals, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

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JK Marlow    jkm160531_023

May    Pickens County    SC

Table Rock State Park

A solitary leaf about halfway up the stem & one leaf bract at ovary base, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

image of Cleistesiopsis bifaria, Appalachian Dragonhead Pogonia, Appalachian Small Spreading Pogonia, Smaller Rosebud Orchid, Upland Spreading Pogonia

JK Marlow    jkm220525_8015

May    Greenville County    SC

Green Mountain Preserve

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Steve Marlow    snm160531_029

May    Pickens County    SC

Table Rock State Park

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Keith Bradley    kab_c_bifaria_0565

June    Burke County    NC

Pisgah National Forest

Sepals (24-) 30-40 (-55) mm long; petals 21-36 mm long, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

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Keith Bradley    kab_c_bifaria_0585

June    Burke County    NC

Pisgah National Forest

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Penny Longhurst    pen_20230609_151048

June    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Distance between median leaf and floral bract 3-16cm, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

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Penny Longhurst    pen_20230703_091838b

July    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

The basal 3/4 of the central keel of the lip with 5-7 discontinuous and irregular ridges, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

 

 

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cleistes bifaria   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Cleistes 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

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

 

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2133

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist to fairly dry meadows, dry ridgetops under pines (where seasonally moist), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Carolina Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Corolla mostly white (pinkish) /Sepals brownish-maroon
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
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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