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Nodding Ladies' Tresses
Spiranthes cernua
44.9401, -71.6855
Field Notes
Description:
A bumblebee sipping nectar invariably starts at the bottom of a floral spike and works its way up. Size 3-20 inches (most here were 3 inches) flowers are 1/8 to 1/2 inches wide. Flowers white, nodding in dense spirals at top of leafless stalk. Leaves grasslike, arising from base of stalk.
Habitat:
Moist meadows, bogs, fields, prairies in bloom August to November (not November in VT).
Notes:
Dainty little flowers found here in there in wetlands.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedSeptember 30, 2014
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