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Definition of Rattlesnake plantain
1. Noun. Any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme.
Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Goodyera, Goodyera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattlesnake Plantain
Literary usage of Rattlesnake plantain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"I. Lesser rattlesnake plantain. Spike not one-sided. Plant six to twenty inches
tall, leaves very strongly netted with white, the tip of the lip short and ..."
2. The Mysteries of the Flowers by Herbert Waldron Faulkner (1917)
"rattlesnake plantain—Epipactis July-August This modest little plant has put off
the splendours of the orchid, and even disguises the veining of its leaves ..."
3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"R.Br. Downy rattlesnake-plantain Herbaceous perennial Dry to moist, deciduous or
... Goodyera repens (L.) R.Br. Lesser rattlesnake-plantain; White-blotched ..."
4. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"R.Br. Downy rattlesnake-plantain Herbaceous perennial Dry to moist, deciduous or
... Goodyera repens (L.) R.Br. Lesser rattlesnake-plantain; White-blotched ..."
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