Habenaria nivea [Nutt.]Lindley 1826 Photo courtesy of Mike Abrams
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Common Name Snowy Orchid
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
A medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 3 lanceolate leaves from the eastern US to Texas and Arkansas growing in swamps, pine barrens and wet grasslands and blooms on a terminal, erect, 3/4 to 1 3/4' [20 to 50 cm] long, many flowered, racemose, cylindric inflorescence with very fragrant flowers occuring in the summer.
Synonyms Gymnadenia conica Lindl. 1835; Gymnadenia nivea [Nutt.] Lindley 1835; Gymnadeniopsis nivea [Nutt.] Rybd. 1901; *Orchis nivea Nutt. 1818; Peristylus niveus (Nutt.) Kraenzl. 1898; Platanthera nivea (Nutt.) Luer 1972
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