PlantFiles: Leafless Beaked Ladie's Tresses
Sacoila lanceolata

I received this plant three years ago as a seedling in a half gallon pot. I repotted it into a two gallon pot after it lost its last leaf October 06.I used store bought Miracle - Gro Potting Mix, and added about 2 oz, of Dynamite slow release 13-13-13. I planted it to where the crown was just below the surface. Only watered it when it was near hard dry untill growth was evident in early March. 04/20/2007 It is now 18 inches high.I have been watering it twice a week,and using water soluble fertilizer I live in east central Pinellas county near the intersection of U.S.19 and 62nd Ave.N

Herbaceous, perennial with large lanceolate or elliptical leaves forming a basal rosette. No leaves are present during flowering. The leaves can be 8 inches long and up to 2 inches wide. It blooms finely pubescent brick red flowers on an upright, fleshy spike 12 to 14 inches tall from April through July.

Its natural habitat is open meadows, pastures and roadsides of peninsular Florida southward trough the West Indies and tropical South America and Mexico

Due to collection and habitat destruction this plant is on the Florida Endangered