Meaning | Any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip. |
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Synonym | rein orchid |
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Member of | Habenaria, genus Habenaria | chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes |
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Narrower | Alaska rein orchid, Habenaria unalascensis | Similar to coastal rein orchid but with smaller flowers |
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bog rein orchid, bog candles, Habenaria dilatata | orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems |
coastal rein orchid, Habenaria greenei | stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers |
elegant Habenaria, Habenaria elegans | Slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers |
round-leaved rein orchid, Habenaria orbiculata | orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground |
Broader | orchid, orchidaceous plant | Any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors |
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