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| White fringed orchid | |
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| Flower of Platanthera blephariglottis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Genus: | Platanthera |
| Species: | P. blephariglottis
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| Binomial name | |
| Platanthera blephariglottis | |
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Platanthera blephariglottis, commonly known as the white fringed orchid or white-fringed orchis, is a species of orchid of the genus Platanthera. It is considered to be an endangered species in Connecticut and Ohio, a threatened species in Florida, Maryland and Rhode Island, exploitably vulnerable in New York,[6] and susceptible to be threatened in Québec.
Platanthera is a Greek word that means "flat" and "flower". For this use it means "wide or flat anthered". Blephariglottis is from blepharis which means "eyelash" or "fringed" and glottis for "tongue."[7]
Description
Flowering from late spring until summer, Platanthera blephariglottis is an 8 to 110 centimeters (3 to 43 inches) tall plant that can be found growing in bogs and on the moist banks of lakes and rivers on the eastern side of North America.
- Stem and leaves
- At least 2 and often several spreading to ascending leaves scattered along the stem. Leaf shapes from linear-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate and elliptic-lanceolate.[4]
- Flowers
- Dense to lax spikes of showy white flowers. Lateral sepals bent downward and outward more than 90 degrees. Petals are near entire fringed and the shape is linear and narrows toward the point of attachment.[4]
Distribution
Often found growing in sphagnum and other acidic moss, in open wet areas in black spruce and/or tamarack bogs or on the boggy shores of lakes and in open wet meadows.[8][9][10]
- Native
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- Nearctic
- Eastern Canada: Ontario, Quebec
- Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
- North-Central United States: Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin
- Southeastern United States: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
- South-Central United States: Texas
References
- ^ Lindley, John (1835). The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants. Ridgways, Piccadilly. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- ^ "Platanthera blephariglottis". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. 3 June 2008.
- ^ "Platanthera blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindl". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- ^ a b c "25. Platanthera blephariglottis (Willdenow) Lindley". Flora of North America. 26. efloras: Page 552, 564, 567, 568, 569, 571.
- ^ "Habenaria blephariglottis (Willd.) Hook". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- ^ a b NRCS. "Platanthera blephariglottis". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- ^ Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium. "Platanthera blephariglottis". University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- ^ Intermountain Herbarium Server (USU-UTC) (26 April 2007). "Fact Sheet Platanthera blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindl". Intermountain Herbarium Server (USU-UTC). Utah State University. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- ^ Goltz, James P. (1996). "Platanthera blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindley". Muskoka Flora. University of Toronto Library. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- ^ Ann F. Rhoads and Timothy A. Block (4 September 2007). "Eastern prairie fringed-orchid ( Platanthera blephariglottis )" (PDF). Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- ^ Wisconsin State Herbarium. "Taxon - Platanthera blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindl". Wisflora - Vascular Plants. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Archived from the original on 9 September 2006. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
Further reading
- Niering, W.; Olmstead, N. (1995). National Audubon Society Guide to North American Wildflowers, Eastern Region. plate 151 and p. 655. ISBN 0-394-50432-1.
- Porter, Noah, ed. (1913). Webster's Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: C. & G. Merriam Co.
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External links
- "White Fringed Orchid". Connecticut Wildflowers. Connecticut Botanical Society. 13 November 2005. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- Langdon, K. R. "A NATIVE TERRESTRIAL ORCHID, PLATANTHERA BLEPHARIGLOTTIS THE WHITE FRINGED ORCHID". Botany Circular. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Archived from the original on 25 December 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
- "Platanthera blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindl. var. blephariglottis". Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora. Virginia Botanical Associates. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2008.