Platanthera ciliaris (L.) Lindl. 1835 Photo courtesy of Nicholas Plummer

Flower Closeup Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

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Common Name or Meaning The Haired Platanthera - The Yellow Fringed Orchid

Flower Size 1/2" x 1" [1.25 x 2.50 cm]

A large sized, cool growing terrestrial found in the eastern US growing in wet pine barrens, wet meadows and forests, having a long stem carrying, 2 to 4, pointy leaves and blooms on a terminal, erect, to 2 1/2' [75 cm] long, many flowered, racemose inflorescence with long-lasting flowers and slender floral bracts occuring in the summer and early fall and has the common name Yellow Fringed Orchid.

Synonyms Blephariglottis ciliaris (L.) Rydb. 1901; Blephariglottis flaviflora Raf. 1837; Habenaria ciliaris R.Br. 1813; *Orchis ciliaris L. 1753;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 5 1982 drawing; AOS Bulletin vol 53 no 7 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 5 2006 photo;

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