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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria repens   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Habenaria repens

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

Habenaria repens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-006:

Habenaria repens   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Habenaria repens

 

COMMON NAME:
Water-spider Orchid, Floating Orchid


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image of Habenaria repens, Water-spider Orchid, Floating Orchid

Jim Fowler    jafhab_0006

May-October    Berkeley County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

The petals and lip resemble spider legs splayed against the plant's sepals, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria repens   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Habenaria repens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-006:
Habenaria repens   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2139

Aquatic or terrestrial; Forb
Perennial

Habitat: blackwater swamps, pools, banks of creeks and rivers, marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in NC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
"Leafy"

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Greenish
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

Raceme

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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