Spiranthes lacera

Slender Ladies'-tresses

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Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)

Mid-Atlantic bloom time: August - September

According to Zachary R. Bradford's article in Sempervirens, The Quarterly of the Virginia Native Plant Society, Summer 2022¹, Slender Ladies'-tresses' unique combination of characteristics are:

• flowering August - September
• leaves lacking at flowering
• flower lips with central green splotch

For a comparison of Ladies'-tresses based on Bradford's articles on this flora site, see Spiranthes (Ladies'-tresses) Orchids ID help.

28 August 2014 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA (Southern Slender Ladies'-tresses - Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis)	28 August 2014 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA (Southern Slender Ladies'-tresses - Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis)	28 August 2014 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA (Southern Slender Ladies'-tresses - Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis)	3 August 2015 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA
3 August 2015 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA	22 July 2021 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA	22 July 2021 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA	23 August 2022 Haymarket, VA
22 July 2021 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA	22 July 2021 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA	20 August 2024 Haymarket, VA	20 August 2024 Haymarket, VA

References

1:   Zachary R. Bradford. "Virginia’s spring and summer ladies’-tresses". Sempervirens, The Quarterly of the Virginia Native Plant Society. summer 2022 (PDF)

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