POGONIA OPHIOGLOSSOIDES
Scientific Name: Pogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker.
Common Name: Rose Pogonia or Snakemouth
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
Plant gabrous, slender, 0.8-7 dm tall, propagating by means of root
shoots. Stem green or brownish green. Leaf solitary, about halfway up
the stem, ovate to elliptic or widely ovate-lanceolate, 2-12 cm long, 1-3
cm wide, obtuse to subacute. Floral bract foliaceous, oblong-elliptic to
oblong lanceolate, 1-3 cm long, 3-8 mm wide. Flowers 1-3, terminating
the stem, rose to white, of several days' duration, fragrant; sepals and
petals oblong-elliptic to elliptic-obovate to linear-lanceolate, 13-27 mm
long, 3-11 mm wide, widely rounded at apex; lip narrowly
oblong-spatulate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 8-10 mm wide near apex, narrowed at
base, lacerate-toothed along apical margin, predominantly bearded along 3
central veins of the disc with short, fleshy, yellow-white bristles;
column ca. 1 cm long, apically toothed. Capsule ellipsoid, 2-3 cm long.
(n=9). May-June. Open bogs and seepage slopes. Infrequent. Rare in
piedmont and mountains of N.C.
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Orchidaceae,
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