Orchids and Spiderworts

 

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I. Order Asparagales

Iridaceae - iris family

Iris virginica (= I. shrevei) (blue flag, iris)
Iris versicolor
(blue flag)
Iris lacustris
(dwarf lake iris) [threatened]
Iris pseudacorus
(yellow flag)
Sisyrinchium albidum
(blue-eyed grass)
Crocus vernuus
(spring crocus) - cultivated

Hypoxidaceae - star-grass family [Liliaceae in G&C, Amaryllidaceae in Spring Flora]

Hypoxis hirsuta (star-grass)

Orchidaceae - orchid family

Cypripedium calceolus (yellow lady's-slipper)
Cypripedium candidum
(white lady's-slipper) [threatened]
Cypripedium reginae
(showy lady's-slipper)
Cypripedium acaule
(moccasin flower, stemless lady's-slipper)
Cypripedium arietinum
(ram's head lady's-slipper) [threatened]
Aplectrum hyemale
(putty root, Adam-and-Eve)
Calopogon tuberosus
(grass pink)
Corallorhiza trifida
(early coral root)
Goodyera pubescens
(rattlesnake plantain)
Platanthera ciliaris
(orange fringed orchid) [= Habenaria]
Platanthera leucophaea
(prairie white fringed orchid) [= Habenaria]
Platanthera psycodes
(purple fringed orchid) [= Habenaria]
Malaxis monophylla
(white adder's mouth)
Orchis spectablis
(showy orchis)
Pogonia ophioglossoides
(snake mouth orchid)
Spiranthes cernua
(nodding ladies' tresses)

 

II. Order Dioscoreales

Dioscoreaceae - yam family

Dioscorea villosa (wild yam)

 

III. Order Commelinales

Commelinaceae - spider wort family

Tradescantia ohiensis (common spiderwort)
Commelina communis
(common day flower)

 

Ponteridaceae - pickeral weed family

Pontenderia cordata (pickeral weed)
Zosterella dubia
(water star-grass)

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