Nodding Lady Tresses Orchid Seeds

Ease to Grow: Moderate Dormancy: Recommended Native Range: Peat Bogs of Eastern and Central North America Zones: 3-8 (2-10) Nodding Lady Tresses, Spiranthes odorata, is a delightful fall blooming bog orchid with a spiral of white flowers on a tall stem. Each blossom "nods", or tips down slightly, giving it its name. Lips are wavy and tinted yellow. There can be 10 to 50+ flowers on a stalk, looking like small white stair cases winding up a castle turret. The flowers are fragrant and bloom from late summer until after the first frost. Leaves are long and lanceolate, usually 3-5 per plant. It is a bog plant which grows in open, acidic bogs with sphagnum moss, but is adaptable to drier, upland conditions, as long as the soil remains damp during flowering. It does best in wet conditions, and frequently sends out a stolon budding small plants. It is an adaptable and vigorous grower. Seeds are very fine and dust like, spread by the wind, producing volunteers readily throughout the collection