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Yellow Lady's Tresses Orchid

August 31, 2024

The Yellow Lady's Tresses Orchid is early this year. It's Nova Scotia's latest blooming orchid showing flower heads up to the first frost. The stalk has a spiraling growth pattern and nodding flower heads. They are more abundant this year so it seams.

Yellow Lady's Tresses Orchid

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Spiranthes ochroleuca

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yellow nodding ladies'-tresses

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Tribe:	Cranichideae
Genus:	Spiranthes
Species:	S. ochroleuca
Binomial name
*Spiranthes ochroleuca* (Rydb.) Rydb.^[1]
Synonyms
Gyrostachys ochroleuca Rydb. (basionym) Ibidium ochroleucum (Rydb.) House Triorchis ochroleuca (Rydb.) Nieuwl. Ibidium cernuum var. ochroleucum (Rydb.) House Triorchis cernua var. ochroleuca (Rydb.) Farw. Spiranthes steigeri Correll

Spiranthes ochroleuca, commonly called the yellow nodding lady's tresses,^[2] is a species of orchid occurring from southeastern Canada to the eastern United States.

Distribution and habitat

Spiranthes ochroleuca is native in eastern Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Prince Edward Island), throughout the Northeastern United States, and in the southeastern United States (Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia).^[1] Its habitats include open woodlands, thickets, meadows, barrens, ledges, outcrops, banks and roadsides.

Keywords: Canada, Nova Scotia, Orchids of Nova Scotia, Wild Flora of Nova Scotia, Yellow Lady's Tresses Orchid

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