OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calopogon pallidus   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Calopogon pallidus

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

Calopogon pallidus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-10-003:

Calopogon pallidus   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Limodorum pallidum

 

COMMON NAME:
Pale Grass-pink


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image of Calopogon pallidus, Pale Grass-pink

JK Marlow    jkm0505u_08

May    Williamsburg County    SC

Flowers typically open one at a time sequentially up the stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Calopogon pallidus, Pale Grass-pink

Jim Fowler    jafcop_0003b

May-July    Berkeley County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

Lateral sepals are curved toward the stem and petals are curved forward, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

image of Calopogon pallidus, Pale Grass-pink

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_pallidus_palec

August        

Lateral sepals distinctively reflexed backward w their apices behind flower, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calopogon pallidus   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Calopogon pallidus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-10-003:
Calopogon pallidus   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

 

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1964

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine savannas, sandhill seeps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rose-pink/ 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:
Summer
Capsule

 

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