Lily-Leaved Twayblade
Scientific Name:Liparis liliifolia
Common Name Synonyms: Purple Twayblade


NOTES: Prefers lightly shaded areas and occurs in a variety of habitats including successional forests and floodplains. Each plant grows from a new underground corm; the previous year’s corm withers away.

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Lily-Leaved Twayblade
Genus species: Liparis liliifolia
Common Names: Lily-Leaved Twayblade
Purple Twayblade
Family Name: Orchidaceae  
Perennial herbs; leaves various, simple and parallel-veined, sometimes absent; flowers bisexual, irregular, solitary or in spikes or racemes; fruit a capsule; seeds lack endosperm, requiring contact with a symbiotic fungus for successful germination; largest family of flowering plants (rivaled only by the Aster family), with possibly over 30,000 species.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Violet/Blue
Green/Brown
Identified by:A. Swanson
Months in Bloom:  
The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicate when the plant has been observed blooming.
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