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

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes odorata FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Spiranthes odorata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Spiranthes odorata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Spiranthes cernua var. odorata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-002b:

Spiranthes cernua var. odorata FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Ibidium odoratum

COMMON NAME:
Fragrant Ladies'-tresses, Marsh Ladies'-tresses

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October-November Berkeley County SC

Francis Marion National Forest

Flowers strongly fragrant, white w a creamy or greenish-yellow lip center, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes odorata FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Spiranthes odorata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Spiranthes cernua var. odorata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-002b:
Spiranthes cernua var. odorata FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ibidium odoratum

2155

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: swamps and marshes, often emergent at the time of flowering in Taxodium and Nyssa swamps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly 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

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