Species: Listera convallarioides

Broadleaf Twayblade
Species

    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.

    Kingdom
    Plantae
    Phylum
    Anthophyta
    Class

    Monocotyledoneae

    Order

    Orchidales

    Family

    Orchidaceae

    Genus

    Listera

    Classification
    Informal Taxonomy
    Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Orchid Family
    Formal Taxonomy
    Plantae - Anthophyta - Monocotyledoneae - Orchidales - Orchidaceae - Listera

    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.

    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1985-04-10
    Global Status Last Changed
    1985-04-10
    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.
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