Wild Flowering Plants
| Orchidaceae family Bletia purpurea (Lamarck) de Candolle, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 9: 97. 1841. Bas.: Limodorum purpureum Lamarck, Encycl. 3: 515. 1792. Escaped terrrestrial herb of open river bank, Roseau River, Millet. Native to the New World. Collected in the wild by Mrs. Shingleton-Smith close to the Roseau dam when it was being constructed. Also cultivated |