Platanthera hookeri (Torr.) Lindl. 1835

Plant and Inflorescence Photos by © David Mcadoo

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Common Name Hooker's Platanthera [English Botanist 1800's]

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Found in Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Islands, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Minnesota, Wisconson, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsyvania, New York, New Jersey, Conneticutt, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine in drier mixed, coniferous forests as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2, opposite, basal, rounded, , green leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, to 16" [40 cm] long, laxly to densely, to 50 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Habenaria hookeri Torr. 1835; Habenaria hookeri var. abbreviata Fernald 1933; Habenaria hookeriana Lindl. 1835; Habenaria oblongifolia (C.N.Paine) G.G.Niles 1904; Lysias hookeriana (Lindl.) Rydb. 1901; Orchis hookeri (Torr.) Alph.Wood 1870; Orchis hookeriana (Lindl.) Oakes 1842; Platanthera hookeri f. abbreviata (Fernald) P.M.Br. 1995; Platanthera hookeri f. oblongifolia (C.N.Paine) P.M.Br. 2006; Platanthera hookeri var. abbreviata (Fernald) W.J.Schrenk 1977; Platanthera hookeri var. oblongifolia C.N.Paine 1865

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 5 1964 photo;

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