!Goodyera repens (Linne) R. Brown 1813 SECTION Goodyera

Plant Photos courtesy of Yuri Mitrofanov

Inflorescence

Flower Closeup Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Photo Website

Full shadeColdTo CoolLATE Spring and EARLY Summer

Common Name Lesser Rattlesnake Plantain

Flower Size 1/4" [.625 cm]

Found in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Belaruss, Western Russia, Central Russia, western Russia, Western Siberia, eastern Siberia, Kazakastan, Kirgistan, Mongolia, Turkey, Iran, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, western Himalayas, Pakistan, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Alaska, Northwet Territories, Yukon, Br Columbia, Alberta,Manitoba, Saskatchuan, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Labrador, Idoaho, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconson, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusets, Conecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennesee and Virginia at elevations up to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid of coniferous forests in damp humus, tundra, wooded areas and thickets with a creeping rhizome, elliptic-ovate, lusterous dark green, obscurely veined with silver leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, pubescent, 3 to 14" [7.5 to 35 cm] long, few to several flowered racemose inflorescence with small pubescent flowers occuring in the late spring and early summer.

Synonyms Elasmatium repens Dulac 1867; Epipactis mairei (Schltr.) Hu 1925; Epipactis repens (Linne) Crantz 1769; Gonogona repens (L.) Link 1822; Goodyera mairei Schltr. 1921; Goodyera marginata Lindl. 1840; Goodyera nantoensis Hayata 1911; Goodyera repens f. ophioides (Fernald) P.M.Br. 1995; Goodyera repens var. japonica Nakai 1953; Goodyera repens var. marginata (Lindl.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; Goodyera repens var. ophioides Fernald 1899; Neottia repens (L.) Sw. 1800; Orchiodes marginatum (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Orchiodes repens (L.) Kuntze 1891; Orchiodes resupinatum Kuntze 1891; Orchis repens (L.) Eyster ex Poir. 1805; Peramium nantoense (Hayata) Makino 1929; Peramium repens Salisb. 1812; Peramium secundum (Raf.) House 1924; Satyrium hirsutum Gilib. 1792; *Satyrium repens Linne 1753; Serapias repens (L.) Vill. 1787; Tussaca repens (L.) Raf. 1814; Tussaca secunda Raf. 1814

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1959 drawing; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005; Native Orchids of Shaanxi Shaanxi Science & Technology Press 2007 photo fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;

Goodyera repens var. ophioides Fernald 1899 Photo courtesy of Brandon Gallagher Watson

A Variety of the previous species.

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