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§1 Plant

Spiranthes vernalis Engelm. & A. Gray

vernacular spring lady's tresses — species · Orchidaceae


USDA
SPVE
GBIF
2805347
Rank
species
spring lady's tresses (Spiranthes vernalis)
Platephotograph · dwittkowerCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Orchidaceae Juss.
Genus
Spiranthes
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 614 counties across 30 states/territories
Legend Native · 614 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 614 counties across 30 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 17 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 29 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 60 N
Georgia view state ↗ 29 N
Illinois view state ↗ 7 N
Indiana view state ↗ 11 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 46 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 47 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 49 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 6 N
Michigan view state ↗ 3 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 30 N
Missouri view state ↗ 22 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 10 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N
New York view state ↗ 8 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 34 N
Ohio view state ↗ 10 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 52 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 5 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 20 N
Texas view state ↗ 53 N
Virginia view state ↗ 44 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SPVE ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2805347 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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