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§1 Plant
Spiranthes lucida (H.H. Eaton) Ames
vernacular shining lady's tresses — species · Orchidaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Orchidaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Spiranthes
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 178 counties across 24 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 178 counties across 24 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Oswego 36075
- Schoharie 36095
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
Ohio view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Crawford 42039
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Warren 42123
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SPLU2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2805336 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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