Blooming Schedule for Pinelands Orchids

New Jersey Pinelands Commission phone: 609-894-7300 P.O. Box 7, New Lisbon, NJ 08064 fax: 609-894-7330 John C. Stokes, Executive Director www.nj.gov/pinelands

The New Jersey Pinelands are noted by amateur and professional botanists alike for the many of native wild orchids, some considered rare. The schedule below is approximate and is intended only to serve as a guide. Blooming periods may vary depending on climate patterns and other growing conditions.

KEY: E = early; M = middle; L = late; Months indicated numerically (i.e M/07 = Mid-July).

Blooming Period Common Name Scientific Name

M/04 - L/05 Southern Twayblade Listera australis E/05 - M/06 Pink Lady’s Slipper, Moccasin Flower Cypripedium acaule M/05 - L/05 Whorled Pogonia Isotria verticillata M/05 - M/06 Arethusa, Dragon’s Mouth Arethusa bulbosa L/05 - E/06 Putty Root Aplectrum hyemale L/05 - M/06 Bog Twyblade Liparis loeselii L/05 - L/06 Lilly-leafed Twayblade Liparis lilifolia E/06 - L/06 Grass Pink Calopogon pulchellus M/06 - E/07 Rose Pogonia Pogonia ophioglossoides M/06 - E/07 Ragged Fringed or Green Fringed Orchid Habenaria lacera L/06 - E/07 Spreading Pogonia Cleistes divaricata L/06 - L/07 Spring Ladies’-tresses L/06 - L/07 Helleborine Epipactis helleborine L/06 - L/07 Crane-fly Orchid Tipularia discolor E/07 - L/07 Ragged-lipped or Northern Ladies’-tresses M/07 - E/09 Little or Becks Ladies’-tresses M/07 - E/08 Rattlesnake Plantain pubescens L/07 - M/08 White Fringed Orchid Habernaria blephariglottis L/07 - L/08 Crested Yellow Orchid Habernaria cristata L/07 - M/08 Green Rein Orchid Habernaria clavellata L/07 - L/08 Yellow Fringed Orchid Habernaria ciliaris L/07 - M/08 Canby’s Orchid Habernaria canbyi L/07 - M/08 Green Wood Orchid Habernaria clavellata v. ophinglossoides E/08 - E/09 Southern Yellow Orchid Habernaria integra E/08 - M/09 Grass-leafed or Greenvein Ladies’-tresses Spiranthes praecox M/08 - E/09 Slender Ladies’-tresses Spiranthes gracilis L/08 - M/09 Lace-lipped Ladies’-tresses Spiranthes laciniata L/08 - M/09 Autumn Coral Root Corallorhiza odontorhiza E/09 - M/10 Nodding Ladies’ Tresses Revised April 3003