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Puttyroot Orchid, Adam and Eve - Aplectrum hyemale


Family: Orchidaceae - Orchid family Genus Common Name: Adam and Eve Native Status: Native
Aplectrum hyemale - Puttyroot Orchid, Adam and Eve. This orchid is easy to miss due to its small flowers which may blend into the background, and the fact that its leaves have withered by the time it blooms.

Connecticut: Special Concern
Massachusetts: Endangered
New Jersey: Endangered
New York: Endangered
Pennsylvania: Rare
Vermont: Threatened


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Aplectrum hyemale

Distribution of Aplectrum hyemale in the United States and Canada:
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Site: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA Date: 2010-May-06Photographer: Gerald C. Williamson
This blossom is perhaps an inch across from sepal-tip to sepal-tip. The blossoms are in a terminal raceme on a solitary, unleaved stalk (scape.)
Aplectrum hyemale
Site: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA Date: 2010-May-06Photographer: Gerald C Williamson
Nikon D60
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Aplectrum hyemale
Site: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA Date: 2010-May-06Photographer: Gerald C Williamson
Nikon D60
The blossoms of Aplectrum hyemale are in a loose terminal raceme atop a long leafless stalk up to 2 feet tall.
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Aplectrum hyemale
Site: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA Date: 2010-May-06Photographer: Gerald C Williamson
Nikon D60
Everybody gets to enjoy a little orchid ...
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Aplectrum hyemale
Site: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA Date: 2010-March-27Photographer: Gerald C Williamson
Nikon D60
The leaf of Puttyroot has distinct silver lengthwise veins. The leaf emerges in the fall, and by spring will have started to wither.
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Aplectrum hyemale
Site: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA Date: 2010-May-06Photographer: Gerald C Williamson
Nikon D60
This is what the leaf of Aplectrum hyemale will look like when the flower starts blooming in May or June.
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Aplectrum hyemale
Site: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA Date: 2011-March-05Photographer: Gerald C Williamson
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The seedpod of Aplectrum hyemale is a capsule protecting the seeds.
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Aplectrum hyemale
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Aplectrum hyemale initially published on USWildflowers.com 2010-05-07; Updated 2015-06-24

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