rein orchid
Noun
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Any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip (synset 112086278)
is a type of: orchid, orchidaceous plant - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colorssubtypes:
- bog candles, bog rein orchid, habenaria dilatata - orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
- elegant habenaria, habenaria elegans - slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers
- coastal rein orchid, habenaria greenei - stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers
- habenaria orbiculata, round-leaved rein orchid - orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States
- alaska rein orchid, habenaria unalascensis - similar to coastal rein orchid but with smaller flowers; Alaska to Baja California and east to the Dakotas and Colorado
belongs to: genus habenaria, habenaria - chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsissame as: rein orchis
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