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Limodorum pallidum is an orchid species identified by (Chapm.) Mohr in 1897. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Calopogon pallidus.
ORIGIN: An American native orchid found from Virginia south to Forida and West to Lousiana occurring in pine barrens, marshy meadows and cypress bogs.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial orchids with 1 to 2, slender, ribbed leaves which flowers from February through July on a basal, 6 to 20 [15 to 50 cm] long, erect to arching, few to several, slowly successive flowered inflorescence with nonresupinate flowers with upward curved sepals.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 to 1 5/8 Across inches [2 to 3.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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