OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calopogon multiflorus   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Calopogon multiflorus

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

Calopogon multiflorus

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Limodorum multiflorum

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Limodorum pinetorum

 

COMMON NAME:
Many-flowered Grass-pink


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image of Calopogon multiflorus, Many-flowered Grass-pink

Jim Fowler    jafcalmulti_single040403

April    Levy County    FL

Goethe State Forest

Most of the 5-15 flowers open at about the same time, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

image of Calopogon multiflorus, Many-flowered Grass-pink

Jim Fowler    jafcalmultif_close040403

April    Levy County    FL

Goethe State Forest

Petals widest above the middle, with a narrow base and bluntly pointed tip, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Calopogon multiflorus   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

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

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Limodorum multiflorum

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Limodorum pinetorum

 

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2051

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moderately well-drained soils of pine savannas and pine flatwoods (often with Serenoa repens, within its distribution), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Spring
Magenta-pink
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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