Calopogon multiflorus

Reliable assessments of the Many-flowered Grass-pink’s population status across its range are not available. Like other orchid species, this taxon is difficult to locate during surveys and plants are unpredictably dormant (Goldman and Orzell 2000). There are 60 to 61 known sites where the Many-flowered Grass-pink Orchid occurs or has been known to occur across its range. However, at the majority of these sites the number of individual plants counted during surveys has been low, from one to 20 plants. There are three to four sites where the orchid was previously documented but now no longer occurs. Thus, some decline in the range of this species is already noted. The rarity and vulnerability of this species is established. According to the “Plants Database,” provided by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (2014), the species is listed as Endangered by Florida and North Carolina. It is a species of Special Concern in Georgia. In Alabama and Louisiana, the species rarity ranking is S1, meaning there are “five or fewer occurrences, very few remaining individuals, acres, or miles of stream, or some factor of its biology making it especially vulnerable” in Alabama and that it is “critically imperiled in Louisiana because of extreme rarity (five or fewer known extant populations) or because of some factor(s) making it especially vulnerable to extirpation” (Alabama Plant Atlas Editorial Committee 2014, Louisiana Natural Heritage Program, webpage accessed June 2014).