Flowers for the garden
Lady's tresses or Cпирантес
Spiranthes
Family: Orchidaceae. The genus Cпирантес includes about 100 species, distributed both in the temperate belt of the Northern Hemisphere and in tropical regions.
Small terrestrial orchids with tuberously thickened cylindrical roots, small leaves often in a basal rosette, and small white or pink flowers arranged in a one-sided raceme with a spirally twisted axis.
