Listera cordata, July 28, 2022
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Common & scientific name
Heart-leaved twayblade, Listera cordata
Family
Orchid, Orchidaceae
Location
Old road, 9,700’
Fun, weird, helpful, or little known fact
From the wonderful North American Orchid Conservation Center: This species “has the widest distribution of any species in its genus, growing throughout the western United States, across Canada, around the Great Lakes and on the East Coast from North Carolina to Maine. It produces two opposite heart-shaped leaves on its green or reddish purple stem, and bears up to 25 yellowish green or reddish purple flowers. The labellum splits and forms two elongated lobes. This orchid is known to form colonies of several hundred plants. It typically grows on peat-moss hummocks in forested swamps, as well as in moist woodlands and in coniferous or mixed forests.” This describes exactly where this plant was found!