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Many-flower Grass-pink (Calopogon multiflorus)

Calopogon multiflorus
Photo by Jared Franklin, courtesy of Naples Botanic Garden

Photo Credit: Jared Franklin

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Orchidaceae
State: AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC
Nature Serve ID: 138609
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Categories of Interest: Orchids
Date Inducted in National Collection: 08/30/2021

Description:

Where is Many-flower Grass-pink (Calopogon multiflorus) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Many-flower Grass-pink can be found in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina

Which CPC Partners conserve Many-flower Grass-pink (Calopogon multiflorus)?

Naples Botanical Garden

Conservation Actions

Tina Stanley

05/11/2023

According to a March 2023 extract of the Florida Plant Rescue Database, Atlanta Botanical Garden holds 1 accessions of Calopogon multiflorus of wild origin.

Tina Stanley

05/11/2023

According to a March 2023 extract of the Florida Plant Rescue Database, Naples Botanical Garden holds 1 accessions of Calopogon multiflorus of wild origin.

Jessica DeYoung

11/03/2022

On a field trip to Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, The Naples Botanical Garden Conservation Team is greeted by a rather shocking sight: A patch of manyflowered grasspink (Calopogon multiflorus) in bloom. Why are we so surprised, you might ask? Well, according to scientific literature, this rare ground orchid, one of the native plants we're targeting for the Center for Plant Conservation’s Florida Plant Rescue, will bloom only after a fire. There'd been no wildfire and no prescribed burn at that site this year. So why were we seeing light magenta?

This is just one of many questions the FLPR initiative has spurred us to ask about the behavior of the manyflowered grasspink. Some others: Can a fire stimulate flower production years after its occurrence? How long can an orchid population last without fire before the plants go into dormancy? We’ve successfully preserved seed from existing plants. Together with Rookery Bay specialists, we’re protecting it in the wild too through mechanisms such as prescribed fires. Going forward, we can continue to develop a better understanding and conservation focus on this species.

Center for Plant Conservation

08/30/2021

Naples Botanical Garden plans to make a conservation seed collection of this species in 2021 as part of CPC’s inaugural season of the Florida Plant Rescue seed collections initiative.