OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes vernalis   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Spiranthes vernalis

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

Spiranthes vernalis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-007:

Spiranthes vernalis   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Ibidium vernale

 

COMMON NAME:
Spring Ladies'-tresses


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image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ibve_001_lvd

        

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

Keith Bradley    kab_s_vernalis_72938

March    Miami-Dade County    FL

Everglades National Park

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

Keith Bradley    kab_s_vernalis_72964

March    Miami-Dade County    FL

Everglades National Park

Inflorescence very narrow, upper part of the stem normally quite hairy, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

Keith Bradley    kab_s_vernalis_72984

March    Miami-Dade County    FL

Everglades National Park

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

Keith Bradley    kab_s_vernalis_73005

March    Miami-Dade County    FL

Everglades National Park

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsvernalis_dogswamp1

May?    Berkeley County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsvernalis_moultrie

May?        SC

Lake Moultrie

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

Jim Fowler    jafsvernalis_2001

June    Pickens County    SC

Unique in its orange/brown spots on lip & pointed hairs on stem & flowers, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

Jim Fowler    jafsvernalis_2002

June    Pickens County    SC

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

JK Marlow    jkm080607_002

June    Pickens County    SC

image of Spiranthes vernalis, Spring Ladies'-tresses

JK Marlow    jkm080607_003

June    Pickens County    SC

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spiranthes vernalis   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Spiranthes vernalis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-12-007:
Spiranthes vernalis   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

 

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2158

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine savannas, bogs, marshes, fairly dry fields, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellowish/Often 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:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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