Washington Flora Checklist

A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Washington State
Hosted by the University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum

Checklist » Orchidaceae » Goodyera oblongifolia

Goodyera oblongifolia Raf.[FNA26, HC, HC2]

giant rattlesnake-plantain, western rattlesnake-plantain

Publication: Herb. Raf. 76. 1833.

Origin: Native

Herbarium search: CPNWH

Notes: Goodyera oblongifolia and G. repens are likely the parents of the allotetraploid G. tesselata (Kallunki 1976, 1981, 2002). Earlier checklist reports of Goodyera repens from WA are in error.

FNA26: "In eastern North America, Goodyera oblongifolia is restricted to formerly glaciated areas. Plants with leaves white-reticulate on the lateral veins have been described as Goodyera oblongifolia var. reticulata. This segregate, essentially coastal in distribution, occurs from northern California to southeastern Alaska and is less frequent inland from British Columbia to New Mexico and in Michigan and Wisconsin. Because garden transplant experiments (J. A. Calder and R. L. Taylor 1968, vol. 1) have shown that both reticulate and non-reticulate leaves are found within the same clone, varieties are not recognized."

References:

» Kartesz, J. T. 2003. A Synonymized Checklist and Atlas with Biological Attributes for the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. Second Edition. In: Kartesz, J. T., and C.A. Meacham. Synthesis of the North American Flora, CD-ROM Version 2.0. Published by J. T. Kartesz & Phylosystems Corporation, Chapel Hill, NC.

Last updated 5/23/2020 by David Giblin.

Photo © 2007 Gerald D. Carr
(from WTU Image Collection)

Synonyms & Misapplied Names:

Goodyera decipiens (Hook.) F.T. Hubbard

Goodyera oblongifolia Raf. var. reticulata B. Boivin

Peramium decipiens (Hook.) Piper