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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. Orchids
  7. Polystachyinae
  8. Snout Orchids

genus

Snout Orchids

Polystachya

Traits
Includes
1 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Yellow Helmet Orchid native
  • Lucky Charm Orchid
  • Lesser Yellowspike Orchid present
  • Polystachya neobenthamia
  • Polystachya valentina
  • Polystachya perrieri
  • Polystachya galeata
  • Polystachya paniculata
  • Polystachya longiscapa

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native snout orchids All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Yellow Helmet Orchid Polystachya concreta flowers 1

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