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| name = Dragon's Mouth<br />
| image = Arethusa bulbosa, Black Fen.jpg<br />
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae<br />
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]<br />
| classis = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]<br />
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]<br />
| familia = [[Orchidaceae]]<br />
| subfamilia = [[Epidendroideae]]<br />
| tribus = [[Arethusae]]<br />
| subtribus = [[Arethusinae]]<br />
| genus = '''''Arethusa'''''<br />
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]<br />
| species = '''''A. bulbosa'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Arethusa bulbosa''<br />
| binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]<br />
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'''''Arethusa bulbosa''''', or '''dragons mouth''', is the only [[species]] in the [[orchid]] [[genus]] '''''Arethusa'''''. The genus is named after a [[naiad]] of [[Greek mythology]].<br />
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[[Image:Arethusa-bulbosa1.web.jpg|thumb|left|200px|drawing from Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913.<br /> Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada.]]<br />
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This terrestrial and very rare orchid occurs in the temperate regions of North America, mainly in Eastern Canada and Eastern USA. It occurs in [[bog]]s, [[swamp]]s and other lowland humid places. It grows to a height of 15 cm. It forms a large, single, pink terminal [[flower]], with a showy lip and white and yellow fringed crests.<br />
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[[Image:Arethusa.web.jpg|thumb|right|Dragon's mouth]]<br />
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[[Category:Flora of Canada]]<br />
[[Category:Orchid genera]]<br />
[[Category:Orchid species]]</div>MediaWiki default