Spiranthes lucida (H.H.Eaton) Ames 1908

Photo by © W.H. Wagner and The University of Michigan Herbarium Website ="orphotdir/spiranlucida.jpg">Drawing

Drawing by © Carl Luer

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Shining Spiranthes - in USA The Shining Ladies Tresses

Flower Size .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm]

Found in Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode I., New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Nebraska in limy pond shores, riverbanks, meadows, road banks and seeps as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a glabrous below becoming pubescent above stem carrying a basal rosette of 3 to 4, clasping the stem below, green, glossy, elliptic to lanceolate leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer without its leaves present, on an erect, slender, with a few bracts, to 14" [35 cm] long, to flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts and carries fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Gyrostachys latifolia (Torr. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Gyrostachys plantaginea (Raf.) Britton 1896; Ibidium plantagineum House 1905; Neottia aestivalis Oakes ex A.Gray 1867; *Neottia lucida H.H.Eaton 1832; Neottia plantaginea Raf. 1818; Spiranthes aestivalis Oakes 1842; Spiranthes latifolia Torr. ex Lindl. 1840; Spiranthes plantaginea (Raf.) Raf. 1833; Triorchis plantaginea (Raf.) Nieuwl. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2: 206 Raf. 1818 as Neottia plantaginea

Transylvania J. Med. Assoc. Sci. 5: 107 H H Eaton 1832 as Neottia lucida

Herb. Raf.: 44 Raf 1833 as Spiranthes plantaginea nom. illeg.

Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 467 Lindley 1840 as Spiranthes latifolia

Cat. Vermont Pl.: 28 Oakes 1842 as Spiranthes aestivalis sensu auct.

Manual, ed. 5: 504 Oakes ex A.Gray 1867 as Neottia aestivalis nom. illeg.

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys latifolia

Ill. Fl. N. U.S. 1: 470 Britton 1896 as Gyrostachys plantaginea

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 381 House 1905 as Ibidium plantagineum

* Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2: 258 Ames 1908;

Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 122 Nieuwl. 1913 as Triorchis plantaginea

Die Orchideen: 113 Schlechter 1915 as Spiranthes latifolia;

The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide;

Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993;

Wild Orchids of the Northeastern United States PM Brown 1993 photo/drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 3: 277 1997 photo fide;

Wild Orchids of North America north of Mexico PM Brown 2003 photo/drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #3: 148 2015 drawing fide;

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