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Orchidaceae family

Small Spreading Pogonia Cleistes bifaria

Native

Small Spreading Pogonia is a perennial wildflower native to the lower 48 states. It blooms May.

More about this plant

Cleistesiopsis bifaria, the smaller spreading pogonia, is a terrestrial species of orchid native to the eastern United States, along the Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia to Alabama. It grows up to 2 feet tall. Flower petals are white or rose-pink in color with purple or pink venation. Its habitats include savannas, wet meadows, and pine or oak woodlands of ridgetops. The species is threatened by fire suppression, habitat loss, and invasive species. Wikipedia →

Growing & care

USDA PLANTS · TRY
Conditions
Sources · Conditions
Cold hardiness (derived) — Hardiness
Hardiness
≥ zone 7 derived from its U.S. range
Size & form
Sources · Size & form
USDA PLANTS — Lifespan
Lifespan
Perennial
In the garden
Herb layer — Sits in the herb of a layered food forest or polyculture.Open guide →
derived roles
The garden year bloom → fruit → fall colour
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Bloom
Bloom (the flower's colour)
Bloom · May — 11 obs · Herbarium specimens — Park et al. 2023 (CC BY 4.0)
Species characteristics from USDA PLANTS (public domain) + TRY (CC BY) — general guidance, not a guarantee for your exact site. Deer "browsing" is documented palatability, not a deer-proof claim.
Frequently grows with

Across 31 U.S. vegetation-survey plots that recorded Small Spreading Pogonia, these catalog species turned up most often in the same plot — a real field co-occurrence signal, not a planting prescription.

Inkberry · 97% Longleaf Pine · 97% Small Black Blueberry · 90% Pineland Threeawn · 87% Wax Myrtle · 87% Narrowleaf Silkgrass · 87% Blue Huckleberry · 84% Savannah Meadowbeauty · 84%
"%" = share of this plant's plots that also held the species. From sPlotOpen → (Sabatini et al. 2021, CC BY 4.0) — open vegetation plots: wild community composition, not garden design.
Sources for this entry (9) Open & cited
[01] Scientific name & family — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[02] Growth habit & duration — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[03] Native status & distribution — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[04] Common name — USDA PLANTS (via GBIF)
[05] Invasive / introduced status — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503) — native status
[06] Description — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
[08] Cold hardiness (derived) — Derived from U.S. range × USDA PHZM zones
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