Oklahoma grass pink

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Oklahoma grass pink
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Arethuseae
Subtribe: Bletiinae
Alliance: Calopogon
Genus: Calopogon
Species: C. oklahomensis
Binomial name
Calopogon oklahomensis
D.H.Goldman

The Oklahoma grass pink or prairie grass pink (Calopogon oklahomensis) is a terrestrial species of orchid native to the United States, restricted to the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin and is extirpated throughout most of its range. It has flowers that are white, pink or purple, with a labellum with an apical region of yellow hairs.

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Flora of North America treatment of this species]