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Lawn Orchid, Soldier’s Orchid

Zeuxine strateumatica

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Orchidaceae

Native to: Old World Tropics

Florida abundance and distribution: Throughout, often as lawn weed

Recognition: Plant not much taller than surrounding turf, with grass like leaves.  Flowering spike to 4 inches tall, the flowers 2 to numerous, white, horizontal with a yellow lip.  Bracts papery, reddish-brown.  Flowering winter to early spring in Florida.

Other: Apparently apomictic or self-pollinating.  Seeds may be collecting by bagging the flower spikes.

Internet source: http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242102093

Contributed by:  Ryan Agnew