Isotria medeoloides (Pursh) Raf. 1838 Photo by Chuck McCartney
Photo by Carl Luer
Photo by Zachary Bradford
Common Name The Medeola-like Isotria - in US - The Small Whorled Pogonia
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
Found from eastern Canada south to North Carolina and west to Missouri with a pale greenish, hollow, glaucous stem carrying a whorl of 5 to 6 glabrous, light green, elliptic, somewhat pointed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, short to 2" [5 cm] long, single [rarely 2] flowered inflorescence without a floral bract.
Synonyms *Arethusa medeoloides Pursh 1813; Isotria affinis (Austin ex A.Gray) Rydb. 1901; Odonectis affinis (Austin ex A.Gray) Schltr. 1911; Pogonia affinis Austin ex A.Gray 1867;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Field Guide to the Orchids of North America Williams 1983 Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Odonectis affinis; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 drawing plant only; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 No 9 1967 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 11 1970 photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 drawing fide; The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 1 1986 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 7 1986 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 2 1987 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 4/339 1991 photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 5 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 7 2009 drawing fide;
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