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Spiranthes cernua
Also called Nodding Ladies' Tresses, White Nodding Ladies' Tresses, Dropping Ladies' Tresses, Common Ladies' Tresses, Navasota Ladies' Tresses, Nodding Ladiestresses, Nodding Ladies’ Tresses
Spiranthes cernua, commonly called nodding lady's tresses, or nodding ladies' tresses, is a species of orchid occurring from Maritime Canada to the eastern and southern United States. As the common name suggests cernua means "nodding", or "bowed" in Latin.
A commonly cultivated variety is Spiranthes cernua 'Chadds Ford', grown because of its larger flowers, ease of cultivation, and other merits. This cultivar is also often labelled as Spiranthes odorata however botanically it is neither but a third species called Spiranthes bightensis.
The species is native in central and eastern North America, from Ontario and Quebec to the north, Nebraska to the west, Texas to the south, and Nova Scotia to the east. Spiranthes cernua grows in wet meadows, mossy seeps, maritime dune swallows, Sphagnum areas around pond and lake edges and along roadsides.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Spiranthes cernua by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
