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Neottia auriculata
Also called Auricled Twayblade Listera
Auricled twayblade is a small, rare terrestrial orchid of northeastern North America, found in cool woodland and streamside habitats. It is a wild native rather than a garden plant, so it is not realistically grown at home.
Neottia auriculata (syn. Listera auriculata), the auricled twayblade, is a species of terrestrial orchid found in northeastern North America (Labrador, New Brunswick and Maine west to Manitoba and Minnesota.
N. auriculata is a rare orchid species, which was in 1975 proposed as a threatened species in the US, but subsequent surveys found that it existed in greater abundance than initially thought. In the Great lakes region it occupies a very specific habitat, which has sandy soils just about the high water line of rivers that enter lake Superior. It is associated with alders or mossy-banks under trees.
Northwestern twayblade · Southern Twayblade · Northern Twayblade · Neottia confusa · Broadlipped Twayblade · Lesser Twayblade · Neottia dihangensis · Neottia gaudissartii · Bird's-nest orchid · Common twayblade · Kidneyleaf twayblade · Neottia smithiana
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Neottia auriculata 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.
