orchid

any terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, often having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colours, specialized for pollination by certain insects

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orchid

[′ȯr·kəd]

(botany)

Any member of the family Orchidaceae; plants have complex, specialized irregular flowers usually with only one or two stamens.

orchid

of Venezuela. [Flower Symbolism: WB, 7: 264]

See: Flower Or Plant, National

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The overcup oak habitat contains several federally and state listed species of concern, e.g., Eggert's sunflower (Helianthus eggertii Small), Southern twayblade (Listera australis Lindl.), the dusky gopher frog (Lithobates sevosus (Goin and Netting)), the mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum (Holbrook)), and the four-toed salamander (Hemidactylum scutatum (Temminck and Schlegel)) (Patterson, 1989; Clebsch and Pyne, 1995; Carver et al., 1998).

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This search has continued on, and in 2004, at Churchill, we finally completed our search for the 36th species, when we discovered a colony of the rare Listera borealis, the northern twayblade.

A field guide to the Orchids of Manitoba

One orchid which is easily overlooked is the common twayblade, which has long spikes of yellow-green flowers.

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The other orchid species are the broad-leaved helleborine, common twayblade and common spotted orchid.

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