Platanthera peramoena |
Platanthera dilatata |
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purple fringeless orchid |
bog candles, bog-candle, boreal bog-orchid, fragrant white bog orchid, fragrant white rein orchid, rein orchid, scent-bottle, white bog orchid, white northern bog-orchid, white orchid, white rein-orchid |
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Habit | Plants 35–105 cm. | Plants 11–130 cm or more. | ||||||||
Leaves | 2–5, spreading to ascending, scattered along stem, gradually reduced to bracts distally; blade lanceolate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblance-oblong, 7–27 × 1.2–5 cm. |
few–several, ascending to recurved-spreading, scattered along stem, gradually reduced to bracts distally; blade linear, linear-lanceolate, oblong, or oblanceolate, 3.5–32 × 0.3–7 cm. |
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Spikes | lax to dense. |
very lax to very dense. |
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Flowers | resupinate, showy, rose-purple; lateral sepals somewhat reflexed; petals oblong-linear to spatulate, distally crenate to entire; lip descending to somewhat porrect, deeply 3-lobed, without basal thickening, 11–20 × 12–23 mm, distal margins of lobes dentate-lacerate, rarely nearly entire, lateral lobes narrowly cuneate, middle lobe broadly cuneate-flabellate, emarginate to 2-fid; spur clavate, 20–30 mm; rostellum lobes directed forward, spreading, angular; pollinaria straight to geniculate; pollinia directed forward; viscidia orbiculate; ovary slender, 13–23 mm. |
resupinate, rather showy, conspicuous, white; lateral sepals spreading to reflexed; petals ovate- to linear-lance-falcate, margins entire; lip descending or apex adhering to dorsal sepal and petal apices, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, without basal thickening, 4–11 × 2–5 mm, base slightly rounded-dilated to orbiculate, rarely rhombic, margins entire; rostellum lobes parallel to slightly divergent, directed downward, very small, obscure, rounded; pollinaria straight; pollinia remaining enclosed in anther sacs; ovary rather slender to stout, 5–15 mm. |
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2n | = 42. |
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Platanthera peramoena |
Platanthera dilatata |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug(–Oct). | |||||||||
Habitat | Alluvial forests, wet wooded flats, stream banks, seeping slopes, marshes, moist prairies, old fields and pastures, ditches, thickets | |||||||||
Elevation | 0–800 m (0–2600 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; DE; GA; IL; IN; KY; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; OH; PA; SC; TN; VA; WV
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North America
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 565. | FNA vol. 26, p. 556. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Orchidaceae > subfam. Orchidoideae > tribe Orchideae > subtribe Orchidinae > Platanthera | Orchidaceae > subfam. Orchidoideae > tribe Orchideae > subtribe Orchidinae > Platanthera | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Habenaria peramoena | Orchis dilatata, Habenaria dilatata, Limnorchis dilatata | ||||||||
Name authority | (A. Gray) A. Gray: Manual, 473. (1848) | (Pursh) Lindley ex L. C. Beck: Bot. North. Middle States, 347. (1833) | ||||||||
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