Platanthera leucophaea [Nutth.] Lindley 1835
Photo by Carl Luer
Photo by Marcia Whitmore
Drawing by Gordon W Dillon
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Common Name The White Brown Red Platanthera - In USA Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in the central portion of the USA and Canada as a medium to large sized, cold growing, terrestrial orchid found in damp meadows, lake margins and sphagnum bogs with 2 to 5, elliptic to lanceolate, green, keeled, basally clasping leaves grading above into bracts that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, terminal, 1 to 3' [30 to 90 cm] long, several flowered, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying successively opening, night fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Blephariglottis leucophaea (Nutt.) Rydb. 1901; Fimbriella leucophaea (Nutt.) Butzin 1981; Habenaria leucophaea (Nutt.) A. Gray 1867; *Orchis leucophaea Nutt. 1837;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s., 5: 161 Nutt. 1835 as Orchis leucophaea
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 294 Lindley 1835
Manual, ed. 5: 502 Gray 1867 as Habenaria leucophaea
Man. Fl. N. States: 296 Rybd 1901 as Blephariglottis leucophaea
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 180 Ames 1910 as Habenaria leucophaea;
Native Orchids of North America: 85 Correll 1950 as Habenaria leucophea
Native Orchids of North America: 86 Correll 1950 as Habenaria leucophea drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 6 1962 as Habenaria leucophaea photo fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 5 1984 photo fide;
Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993;
AOS Bulletin Vol 66 #3 1997 photo fide photo
Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 1 1999 photo;
Willdenowia 11: 324 Butzin 1981 as Fimbriella leucophaea
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as Fimbriella leucophaea drawing good;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 6 2003 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 71 #1 2008 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #2 2020 stamp fide
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