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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Liparis liliifolia
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Liparis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liparis liliifolia
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Liparis liliifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Liparis liliifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-15-001:
Liparis lilifolia FAMILY Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Liparis liliifolia
COMMON NAME:
Lily-leaf Twayblade, Large Twayblade, Purple Twayblade, Brown Wide-lip Orchid
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_lili3_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_liparis_liliifolia
May
Flowers in a leafless raceme to 12" tall, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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Tim Spira tpslliliifolia2
May
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JK Marlow jkm120728_003
July Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
Leaves 2, basal, keel-like on lower surface, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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JK Marlow jkm0508b_01
August Transylvania County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District
Fruits are ellipsoid capsules to 0.6" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Liparis liliifolia
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Liparis liliifolia
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Liparis liliifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Liparis liliifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-15-001:
Liparis lilifolia
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Liparis liliifolia
846
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist forests, floodplains, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal (2)
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purple
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
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p066
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p134
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p022
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p201
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p473
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p180
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p055
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p402
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005) p100
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p397
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p456
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p025
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