Habenaria leucophaea (Nutt.) A. Gray 1867 Photo courtesy of Marcia Whitmore

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Common Name Prairie Fringed Orchid

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in the central portion of the USA and Canada as a cold to cool growing, terrestrial orchid found in damp meadows, lake margins and sphagnum bogs with 2 to 5 leaves and blooms on an erect, terminal, 1 to 3' [30 to 90 cm] long, several flowered, racemose inflorescence with fragrant flowers occuring in succession and having lanceolate floral bracts all expected in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Blephariglottis leucophaea (Nutt.) Rydb. 1901; Fimbriella leucophaea (Nutt.) Butzin 1981; *Orchis leucophaea Nutt. 1837; Platanthera leucophaea [Nutth.] Lindley 1835

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