Green-fly Orchid

Epidendrum conopseum

Also listed as Epidendrum magnoliae

Found in swamps; Coastal Plain hammocks; granite and other acidic rock outcrops. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

Modest

Native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?

Profile 59%

Light: Partial shade, Full shade, Full sun
Soil moisture: Dry to wet

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Epidendrum conopseum — bloom photograph — Riverbanks Outdoor Store from New Port Richey, FL, United States · CC BY 2.0 · Original photograph

At a glance

Bloom: July to November

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Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Life cycle · Leaves

Height: NC species account not read yet.

Spread, life cycle and leaves: no source found yet.

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 46 Florida counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Regional / representative. Shown: Southern coastal swamps, Florida to Virginia; state not identified, a neighboring state.Loblolly bay in a coastal swamp, Marian Ellis Rowan, 1901. Public domain. Source record.

Solution pits on granite. Shown: Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, DeKalb County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Solution pits, Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, DeKalb County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

All habitats

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 192 animals.

Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Stelgidopteryx serripennis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Aegolius acadicus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapilla
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Palm Warbler
Dendroica palmarum
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podiceps
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Purple Martin
Progne subis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Red-breasted Merganser
Mergus serrator
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Red-throated Loon
Gavia stellata
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Ring-billed Gull
Larus delawarensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpres
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Sandhill Crane
Grus canadensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Savannah Sparrow
Passerculus sandwichensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Scarlet Tanager
Piranga olivacea
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Short-eared Owl
Asio flammeus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Short-tailed Hawk
Buteo brachyurus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Sora
Porzana carolina
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Summer Tanager
Piranga rubra
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Surf Scoter
Melanitta perspicillata
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Virginia Rail
Rallus limicola
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauri
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Whooping Crane
Grus americana
Birds. 1 shared habitat