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Little Ladies' Tresses
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Little Ladies' Tresses

Spiranthes tuberosa

Spiranthes tuberosa, commonly called little lady's tresses, little pearl-twist and slender ladies'-tresses is an orchid species. It is a perennial plant native to North America.

The basal leaves are short-lived, blooming plants having pure white flowers spirally arranged around the single-stemmed inflorescence; the plants grow in grasslands and open woods.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 169276.