
Spiranthes porrifolia Lindl. 1840 Photo courtesy of Dale Borders
Common Name Leek-Leaved Ladie's Tresses
Found in the western Pacific coast of America and Canada as a terrestrial around elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters in seepage slopes, along sttreams and in boggy ravines in mountains and blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, a many spiral flowered inflorescence that is held way above the onion like leaves.
Synonyms Gyrostachys porrifolia (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Ibidium porrifolium (Lindl.) Rydb. 1905; Orchiastrum porrifolium (Lindl.) Greene 1894
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