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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Hexalectris spicata   FAMILY Orchidaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexalectris spicata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

Hexalectris spicata

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

Hexalectris spicata var. spicata

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Hexalectris spicata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-19-001:

Hexalectris spicata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Hexalectris spicata

 

COMMON NAME:
Crested Coralroot, Spiked Crested Coralroot, Brunetta


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image of Hexalectris spicata, Crested Coralroot, Spiked Crested Coralroot, Brunetta

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_hesp3_001_lvd

        

image of Hexalectris spicata, Crested Coralroot, Spiked Crested Coralroot, Brunetta

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_h_spicata_4_s

June?        

image of Hexalectris spicata, Crested Coralroot, Spiked Crested Coralroot, Brunetta

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_hexalectris_spicata_2

June?        

Flowers yellowish-brown with brown-purple streaks and a purplish lip, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Hexalectris spicata, Crested Coralroot, Spiked Crested Coralroot, Brunetta

Jim Fowler    jafhexalectr_close030708

July    Barnwell County    SC

Yellow & purple flowers on a brown stem present a peculiar color combination, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

image of Hexalectris spicata, Crested Coralroot, Spiked Crested Coralroot, Brunetta

Jim Fowler    jafhexalectr_group030708

July    Barnwell County    SC

Resembles Corallorhiza but larger in all respects; scape to 30" tall or more, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Hexalectris spicata, Crested Coralroot, Spiked Crested Coralroot, Brunetta

Bill Stringer    wcs_spikedcrestedcoralrt

July    Greenwood County    SC

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Hexalectris spicata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexalectris spicata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Hexalectris spicata var. spicata

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Hexalectris spicata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-19-001:
Hexalectris spicata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexalectris spicata

 

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673

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry forests and woodlands, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks, such as diabase, gabbro, calcareous siltstone, and dolomite (though sometimes in distinctly acid situations), shell middens, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple - scale-like, sheathing

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellowish-brown with brownish streaks and a purplish lip
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

 

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