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isotria medeoloides
12-22-2016

Isotria medeoloides

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The orchid’s range is from southern Maine south to Georgia and west to southern OntarioMichigan, and Tennessee. A population was found in Missouri in 1897, but the plant is no longer believed extant there.

It has always been considered a rare species, often legendarily so. It has been called “the rarest orchid east of the Mississippi.”

The plant’s habitat includes hardwood and conifer-hardwood forests, where it is found in leaf litter along small “braided” intermittent streams. Its native range includes the Appalachian Mountains and Great Lakes region.

Isotria medeoloides is a rhizomatous herb producing a waxy gray-green stem up to about 25 centimeters tall. The gray-green leaves are up to 8.5 centimeters long by 4 wide and are borne in a characteristic whorl.

The flower has green and green-streaked yellowish petals measuring between 1 and 2 centimeters long

Detailed information
Full Name: Small Whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)
Where found: Wherever found
Critical Habitat:N/A
Species Group:Flowering Plants
Current listing status
Status Date Listed Lead Region Where Listed
Threatened 09/09/1982 Northeast Region (Region 5) Wherever found
Recovery
No critical habitat rules have been published for the Small Whorled pogonia.
Date
Title
Plan Action Status
Plan Status
11/13/1992 Small Whorled Pogonia View Implementation Progress Final Revision 1
Date
Title
Plan Action Status
Plan Status
11/13/1992 Small Whorled Pogonia View Implementation Progress Final Revision 1
Date
Citation Page
Title
Document Type
03/06/2012 77 FR 13251 13253 Initiation of a 5-Year Review of Nine Northeastern Species. Notice of initiation of reviews; request for information.
  • Notice 5-year Review, Initiation
01/29/2007 72 FR 4018 4019 Initiation of a 5-Year Review of Ten Listed Northeastern Species
  • Notice 5-year Review, Initiation
Date
Title
10/16/2008 Small Whorled Pogonia Completed 5 Year Review
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