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.