Bletia purpurea (Lamarck) A.P. de Candolle. Pine-pink, Purple Bletia. Phen: Dec-May (-Nov). Hab: Pine rocklands, wet pine flatwoods, wet Florida prairies, depression marshes, dome swamps, strand swamps, disturbed uplands. Dist: Peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and n. South America.
ID notes:This is the only species of Bletia growing north of Miami-Dade county in FL. Bletia patula is only known from perhaps two populations in Everglades National Park and Bletia florida has only been anecdotally reported as a very infrequent garden escape near Homestead.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy: = Bah, FNA26, K3, S, S13, WH3, WI, Brown (2002), Luer (1972)
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC
Heliophily: 8
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