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Arethusa parviflora is an orchid species identified by Michx. in 1803. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pogonia ophioglossoides.
ORIGIN: This medium sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid is found from Eastern Canada south to Florida and west to Minnesota and Missouri in open wet meadows, sphagnum bogs and poorly drained roadside ditches.
DESCRIPTION: This medium sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid is found from Eastern Canada south to Florida and west to Minnesota and Missouri in open wet meadows, sphagnum bogs and poorly drained roadside ditches with fibrous, pubescent, fleshy, slender roots, globose tubers carrying a single, ovate to elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse to subacute leaf that blooms in the spring in the south to summer in the north, on a 3/4 to 4 3/4 [2 to 11 cm] long, terminal inflorescence that is subtended by a leaf-like bract and has solitary fragrant flowers and has the common name Rose Pogonia or Adder's Mouth.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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