What is the scientific name of the Water Spider Orchid?

Answer 1

The edges of water bodies is the habitat of the Water Spider Orchid (Habenaria repens).

Specifically, this orchid lives up to its name. It may be found along lakes, pools and streams. It also may grow in swamps and out of wet ditches.

Answer 2

East of the Mississippi River is the range of the Water Spider Orchid (Habenaria repens).

Specifically, the wild orchid ranges as far north in its southeasterly extension as North Carolina. It may be found growing as far southeasterly as Florida. It is found growing all along the coastal plain in between the two states. It extends southwestward all along the Gulf Coast, across the Mississippi River, and into Texas.

Answer 3

Habenaria repens is the scientific, Latin or binomial name of the Water Spider Orchid.

Specifically, a scientific name draws upon at least two words. The first word is the genus, whose long lip is paralleled to that of a rein or strap, Habenaria. The second word is the species, whose growth is creeping, repens, from the ends of runners called stolons.