Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Isotria verticillata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more: Isotria verticillata (Large Whorled Pogonia orchid) in Brevard, Transylvania County, NC by Jim Fowler.
Learn more about Large Whorled Pogonia from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Isotria verticillata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2003)
Pogonia verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-06-001:
Isotria verticillata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
COMMON NAME:
Large Whorled Pogonia, Larger Five-leaves
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_isve_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_i_verticillata_5
April
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_i_verticillata_c
April
The long dark sepals & gaping lip resemble a large insect waiting for prey, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Greg Peters glp_05082013_v2
May Transylvania County NC
DuPont Forest
3 long, narrow sepals are light green at base, dark purplish-brown at tips, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
COMPARE
Large and Small Whorled Pogonia and Indian Cucumber-root
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Greg Peters glp_05102013_v2
May Transylvania County NC
DuPont Forest
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Greg Peters glp_05102013_v2a
May Transylvania County NC
DuPont Forest
The bright green leaves tend to point upward when the plant is in flower, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History.
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Jim Fowler jafisovert_030511
May NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Jim Fowler jafisovert_close030511
May NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Isotria verticillata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Isotria verticillata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2003)
Pogonia verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-06-001:
Isotria verticillata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
767
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon to rare in GA, NC, SC
Look for it in moist to dry forests, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Whorls of 5
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Greenish /Purplish-brown
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:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p233
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p052
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p072
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p226
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p177
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p045
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p051
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History p096
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p396
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p023
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p150