Platanthera chapmanii (Small) Luer 1972 Photo courtesy of © Ron Parsons.

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Common Name Chapman's Platanthera [American Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Eastern Texas to North Florida as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid that blooms in the late spring through early fall.

Synonyms *Blephariglottis chapmanii Small 1903; Habenaria chapmanii (Small) Ames 1910

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on The Native Orchids of Florida Luer 1972 as Platanthera x chapmanii [said to be ahybrid of P ciliaris and P cristata