Calopogon multiflorus Lindl. 1840 Photo by © Carl Luer

Flowers Photo by Ian Wilhite Copyright ©

Common Name or Meaning The Many Flowered Calopogon - The Many Flowered Grass Pink

Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]

Found rarely in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina in damp meadows and pine flatwoods as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 2, slender, linear leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, to 12" [30 cm] long, simultaneously 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Calopogon barbatus var. multiflorus (Lindl.) Correll 1940; Calopogon multiflorus f. albiflorus P.M.Br. 2004; Helleborine multiflora (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Limodorum multiflorum (Lindl.) Mohr 1897; Limodorum pinetorum Small 1905;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Native Orchds of Florida Luer 1972 photos fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976; Wild Orchids of The Southeastern US north of Pennisular Florida PM Brown 2004 photo/drawing fide

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