Goodyera pubescens (Willd.) R.Br. 1813
Plant and Flowers Photo by Jim Fowler and his P-Base Orchid North American Orchid Website
Plant Photo courtesy of Zachary Bradford
and EARLY 
Common Name The Hairy Goodyera - in USA - The Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Flower Size 1/4" [2 mm]
This small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid occurs in the northeastern US south to Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina in montane forests with 3 to 8, oblong-elliptic, bluish green with white reticulations leaves in a basal rosette blooming on an erect, terminal, few bracted, densely many flowered, cylindrical inflorescence occuring in the spring through early fall.
The leaves of this species have been used to treat scrofula by our native Americans.
Synonyms Epipactis pubescens (Willd.) A.A.Eaton 1908; Epipactis willdenovii House 1910; Goodyera pubescens var. minor Sims 1825; *Neottia pubescens Willd. 1805; Neottia repens Pursh 1813; Orchiodes pubescens (Willd.) Kuntze 1891; Peramium pubescens (Willd.) Curtiss ex Small & Vail 1893; Peramium tesselatum A.Heller 1900; Satyrium repens Michx. 1803; Tussaca reticulata Raf. 1814
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 4 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 5 1964 photo; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 erroneous; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 6 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 11 1979 photo; Field Guide to the Orchids of North America Williams 1983; AOS Bulletin vol 53 no 7 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 2 1987 photo; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 6 1997 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 4 1999 photo; Wild Orchids of the SE USA PM Brown 2004; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 4 2005 photo plant only; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008
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