Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb. 1932
Photo by Carl Luer
Photos by Jim Fowler and his P-Base Orchid North American Orchid Website
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Ochre-Yellow Spiranthes - The Yellow Ladies Tresses
Flower Size .28 to .48" [.7 to 1.2 cm]
Found in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticutt, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennesee, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Costa Rica? in dry t osomewhat moist meadows, ledges, barrens, slightly wooded areas and grassy roadsides as a miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 5, basal, linear-lanceolate, ascending to spreading leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, racemose, 10 to 50 flowered inflorescence with 3 to 5 fragrant flowers held in tight whorls.
Synonyms *Gyrostachys ochroleuca Rydb. 1901; Ibidium cernuum var. ochroleucum (Rydb.) House 1923; Ibidium ochroleucum (Rydb.) House 1905; Spiranthes ochroleuca f. foliobracteata P.M.Br. 2007; Spiranthes steigeri Correll 1941; Triorchis cernua var. ochroleuca (Rydb.) Farw. 1925; Triorchis ochroleuca (Rydb.) Nieuwl. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Man. Fl. N. States: 300 Rybd. 1901 as Gyrostachys ochroleuca
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 381 House 1905 as Ibidium ochroleucum
Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 123 Nieuwl. 1913 as Triorchis ochroleuca
Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 243-244: 45 House 1923 as Ibidium cernuum var. ochroleucum
Amer. Midl. Naturalist 9: 266 Farw. 1925 as Triorchis cernua var. ochroleuca
*Fl. Plains N. Amer.: 241 Rybd. 1932
Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 9: 241 Correl 1941 as Spiranthes steigeri
The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide;
The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 as S x steigeri drawing/photos fide;
Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993;
Wild Orchids of the SE USA P M Brown 2004; N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 13: 8 P M Br. 2007 as Spiranthes ochroleuca f. foliobracteata
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