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Orchidaceae
Goodyera

not marked as a favorite taxon Goodyera pubescens (Willdenow) R. Brown. Common name: Downy Rattlesnake-orchid. Phenology: Jun-Aug. Habitat: Dry to moist forests and woodlands. Distribution: NB west to ON and MN, south to Panhandle FL, MS, and AR.

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Other Comments: One of the commonest of orchids in much of its extensive range in eastern North America.

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, F, FNA26, G, Il, K4, Mi, Mo1, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, RAB, Tat, Tn, Va, W, WH3, WV, Correll (1950), Luer (1975); = Peramium pubescens (Willd.) MacMill. — S, S13; Neottia pubescens Willdenow. Basionym: Neottia pubescens Willd. 1805

Links to other floras: = Goodyera pubescens - FNA26

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: UPL
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACU
  • Midwest: FAC
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACU

Heliophily ⓘ: 3

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image #1 of Goodyera pubescens© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Goodyera pubescens© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Goodyera pubescens© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
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image #7 of Goodyera pubescens© Alan Cressler: Goodyera pubescens, Pigeon Mountain, Crockford-Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Walker County, Georgia 3 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Goodyera pubescens© Erik Danielson source | Original Image ⭷
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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of dry to moist forests and woodlands.

Stems: Stem an unbranched, glandular-hairy flowering scape with a few bracts.

Leaves: Leaves 3-8 in a basal rosette, petiolate, oval to elliptic, to 2 1/2 in. long, bluish-green with prominent white mid-vein and white side veins, evergreen, smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a narrow, dense terminal spike covered with glandular hairs (flowers on all sides of spike); white; about 1/4 in. long; hairy; with 2 petals and 1 sepal forming a hood over a lower, sac-like lip-petal and 2 flanking, tiny sepals.

Fruits: Fruit a round to ellipsoid capsule.

Comments:

Height: 4-15 in.

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description: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of dry to moist forests and woodlands.

stems: Stem an unbranched, glandular-hairy flowering scape with a few bracts.

leaves: Leaves 3-8 in a basal rosette, petiolate, oval to elliptic, to 2 1/2 in. long, bluish-green with prominent white mid-vein and white side veins, evergreen, smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a narrow, dense terminal spike covered with glandular hairs (flowers on all sides of spike); white; about 1/4 in. long; hairy; with 2 petals and 1 sepal forming a hood over a lower, sac-like lip-petal and 2 flanking, tiny sepals.

fruits: Fruit a round to ellipsoid capsule.

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native range: eastern North America



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