Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Toothpetal Bog Orchid

Habenaria floribunda

Also called Toothpetal False Reinorchid, Mignonette Orchid, Toothed Rein Orchid, Toothpetal Orchid

Toothpetal Bog Orchid
Photo: Naoki Takebayashi from Fairbanks, AK, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0

A terrestrial tuberous orchid native to swamps, wet ground and hardwood forests from Florida and the West Indies through Mexico and tropical America. It needs consistently moist soil and a seasonally dry, warm climate to bloom well.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist during the growing season and allow it to dry somewhat during dormancy.
Soil
Moist, organic-rich, well-drained-but-damp soil or a peat-based bog mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Florida, Mexico to Trop. America
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Habenaria floribunda, common name Toothpetal false reinorchid, is a species of orchid which is widespread across much of Latin America, the West Indies and Florida.

Growing in swampy areas and hardwood forests, it is the most common terrestrial orchid in Florida where it blooms from fall to winter. It grows in much of the Florida Peninsula.

Other Habenaria plants

Rarotonga ground-orchid · Habenaria batesii · Green-hooded rein orchid · Doll orchid · Habenaria delavayi · Big White Egret Flower · Hammock bog orchid · White rein orchid · Small rein orchid · Wispy rein orchid · Habenaria fargesii · Yellow rein orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Habenaria floribunda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…