| Summer lady's-tresses | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Tribe: | Cranichideae |
| Genus: | Spiranthes |
| Species: | S. aestivalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Spiranthes aestivalis | |
| Synonyms | |
Spiranthes aestivalis, commonly called thesummer lady's-tresses, is a species oforchid found in western Europe, Turkey, Russia, and North Africa. Thespecific epithet,aestivalis, is derived fromLatin and means "pertaining to the summer".[1]
It has becomelocally extinct in theBritish Isles.[2]
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