Epipactis gigantea - Stream orchid

Stream orchid (Epipactis gigantea) is a deciduous perennial orchid of wet and moist places across California, with yellow-brown flowers veined in purple, going dormant at the first sign of drought.¹ It grows 0.5-1 m tall and 0.7-2 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Wet soil¹

Type

• Herb
• Perennial
• Deciduous

Functions

• Fire resistance²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.5-1
Diameter (m)	0.7-2

Footnotes

1. Epipactis gigantea, Stream Orchid | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 45 seconds ↩