sepals and a deeply pouched lip below. The seed 

 capsule is up to 0.4 inch long (adapted from 

 Hitchcock et al . 1969 and Szczawinski 1959) . 



2. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Rhizomatous perennial with 

 glandular-pubescent scapes 1-2 dm tall; leaves 

 mainly basal, petiole wing-margined, 5-15 mm long, 

 the blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1-3 cm long, 

 dark green, often white-reticulate along the veins 

 (var. ophioides ) , midrib not white; scapes with 2- 

 3 linear, basally sheathing, greenish bracts; 

 inflorescence a secund, 3-8 cm, closely-flowered 

 raceme, perianth white or pale green, occasionally 

 pinkish; petals and sepals narrowly lanceolate, 

 mostly 3-10 mm, the hood (dorsal sepal and lateral 

 petals) 3-3.7 mm long, strongly concave; lateral 

 sepals concealing the lip, oblique, two-thirds as 

 broad as long, the short blunt tip slightly 

 recurved; lip deeply saccate, 3-3.5 mm long with 

 recurved or flaring margins, basal pouch greater 

 than or equal to 2 mm deep; column ca. 3 mm long, 

 the stylar disk about equal length with the 

 slender prongs of the rostellum; the single anther 

 blunt, 1-1.5 mm long about equalled by the 

 filament, attached near the base of the column; 

 two pollinia with a common linear, elongate 

 viscidium; seed capsule erect, scarcely 1 cm 

 (adapted from Hitchcock et al. 1969, Packer 1983, 

 and Szczawinski 1959) . 



3. LOCAL FIELD CHARACTERS: Goodyera repens is 

 distinguished from G. oblonqifolia . by its overall 

 size; plants are usually less than 2 dm tall, 

 leaves are less than or equal to 4 cm long, and 

 the hood is less than 4 mm in length. Also, the 

 midrib of leaves is not white, and the lip of G. 

 repens plants are deeply saccate, with recurved or 

 flaring margins (Hitchcock et al. 1969, Packer 

 1983, and Szczawinski 1959). 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



1. RANGE: Goodyera repens is a circumpolar species 

 occurring throughout northern North America and 

 Eurasia (Hitchcock et al. 1969, Hulten 1968). In 

 North America, it occurs, more or less 

 continuously, in the boreal forest from Alaska to 

 Newfoundland, and south to the Great Lakes area, 

 and in the Appalachians to North Carolina. In the 

 Rocky Mountains, the distribution extends south 

 continuously to central Alberta and British 

 Columbia, and then is disjunct in Montana, 



