Common Name:
CRANEFLY ORCHID
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Coefficient of Conservatism:
10
Coefficient of Wetness:
3
Wetness Index:
FACU
Physiognomy:
Nt P-Forb
Status:
E
A. Chartier
Rich, sandy deciduous woods, both oak and beech-sugar maple mostly just inland from Lake Michigan dunes.
A very distinctive orchid, the winter-green leaf (as in Aplectrum) withering in spring, before the somewhat asymmetrical greenish or yellowish (marked with purplish) flowers mature in the summer, the rhizome with a series of tubers. The persistent old fruiting stalk may be found with a well-developed leaf at the base.