Species: Listera convallarioides
Broadleaf Twayblade
Species
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
long, light green with a darker green center, narrow at the base and wide at the tip. Two shallow lobes at the tip make the lip resemble the folded wings of an insect. Sometimes there is a small tooth between the lobes. Reproduction by runners sometimes produces large colonies of plants.
Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Anthophyta
Class
Monocotyledoneae
Order
Orchidales
Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Listera
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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Orchid Family
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Anthophyta - Monocotyledoneae - Orchidales - Orchidaceae - Listera
Ecology and Life History
long, light green with a darker green center, narrow at the base and wide at the tip. Two shallow lobes at the tip make the lip resemble the folded wings of an insect. Sometimes there is a small tooth between the lobes. Reproduction by runners sometimes produces large colonies of plants.
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1985-04-10
Global Status Last Changed
1985-04-10
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
In eastern North America, this ranges from Newfoundland to southern Quebec, southern Ontario, and northeastern Minnesota, south to the northern sections of Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, and Maine. In western North America, this ranges from southern Brishish Columbia south to the high elevations of California, Arizona, Neveda, Utah, and Colorado. It is disjunct to South Dakota and scattered locations in northern British Columbia and the Aleutians.