This photoset is from a blowout end-of-season sweep across southern New Jersey.  I visited several populations of the newly described Spiranthes bightensis, a newly described species resolves a lot of problems with what we used to call S. odorata here in NJ.  This really isn't a new species for me, though, it's a new name for a familiar friend.

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