Wild Florida Photo
Nature Photography by Paul Rebmann
Click on the thumbnail to open the full size photo.
The full size photos will open in the same separate window, allowing scrolling back & forth through them.
If you are using Firefox 2 and the photo window does not appear on top when you click on the thumbnails above (after the first one), see the browser page for information on how to change a simple setting to fix this
Pteroglossaspis pottsii
POTTS' PLUME ORCHID
Florida native
Endemic to Florida
This recently discovered terrestrial orchid is known from only one Florida county, becoming the second species of this genus to occur in the United States. Pteroglossaspis pottsii is shorter and has smaller flowers than P. ecristata, and seems to prefer a slightly higher and dryer habitat than the wider ranging species.
The dusty rose colored flowers are in a terminal raceme, twisted around the upper part of the scape. Most flowers do not appear to fully open. The fruit is a five-ribbed ovate capsule. Plants are 60-80 cm (24-31.5 in.) tall with acuminate leaves 30-50 cm (12-20 in.) long and 1-1.5 cm (0.4-0.6 in.) wide. Flowers number from 6-29 and appear from late July through October.
Pteroglossaspis pottsii is a member of the Orchidaceae - Orchid family.
Florida Wildflowers in Their Natural Communities
Walter Kingsley Taylor
Walter Taylor's guide will help readers recognize and identify wildflowers by where they're most likely to be found growing - their natural habitat.This book is the first of its kind for Florida. Taylor provides detailed descriptions and color photos of each community - pine flatwoods, sandhills, upland pine forest, scrub, temperate hardwood forest, coastal uplands, subtropical pine forest, tropical hardwood hammock, and ruderal sites - and of the wildflower species associated with each.
Purchase or get more information by clicking on the following image/link:
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
Date record last modified:
Oct 09, 2007