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Photographer: Derek Anderson
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Family Orchidaceae
Goodyera tesselata Lodd.
checkered rattlesnake-plantain, tesselated rattlesnake-plantain
Goodyera: for John Goodyer (1592-1664)
tesselata: tessellate or checkered, patterned like a mosaic, in allusion to the arrangement of warts on the back of the nutlets
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 5"-12" tall forb; stems single with 3-5 leaf-like bracts |
| Flower: | 6-parted, 1/4"- 1/2" wide, beak of lip half or more as long as the body of the flower;  inflorescence a dense to loose spiral of stalked flowers along a 6"-14" spike-like cluster (raceme); blooms July-Aug. |
| Leaf: | basal, mostly 3/4" - 2" long with white netting |
| Habitat: | dry; woods, forests; in rich soil |
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