Platanthera peramoena A.Gray 1848
Photo by © David Mcadoo and The North Carolina WildflowerWebsite
Photo by © Carl Luer
Drawing by © Gordon W Dillon
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Common Name The Very Beautiful Platanthera
Flower Size .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm]
Found in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missisippi and Arkansas in damp meadows, low wet woods, streamsides and roadside ditches as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 5, cauline, elliptic-lanceolate, keeled, basally clasping leaves gradually reducing to bracts towards the apex that blooms in the late spring through summer on a erect, leafy, 8" to 28" [20 to 45 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.
This species is similar to P grandiflora but is dsistinguished by the denticulate margin of the lip versu fimbriate margin of the lip.
Synonyms Blephariglottis peramoena (A.Gray) Rydb. in N.L.Britton 1901; Blephariglottis peramoena f. doddsiae (P.M.Br.) Baumbach & P.M.Br. 2009; Fimbriella peramoena (A.Gray) Butzin 1981; *Habenaria peramoena (A.Gray) A.Gray 1867; Habenaria psycodes f. leucophaeopsis B.Boivin 1967; Habenaria psycodes f. nivalis F.Seym. 1969; Habenaria psycodes var. fernaldii J.Rousseau & Rouleau 1957; Ophrys fimbriata Walter 1788; Orchis peramoena (A.Gray) Alph.Wood 1870; Platanthera bigelovii Alph.Wood 1861; Platanthera peramoena f. doddsiae P.M.Br.2002; Platanthera psycodes f. fernaldii (J.Rousseau & Rouleau) P.M.Br. 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Carol.: 221 Walter 1788 as Ophrys fimbriata
Class-book Bot.: 685 Alph Wood. 1861 as P bigelovii
Manual, ed. 5: 503 A Gray 1867 as Habenaria peramoena
Amer. Bot. Fl.: 327 Alph Wood. 1870 as Orchis peramoena
Man. Fl. N. States: 297 Rybd. 1901 as Blephariglottis peramoena
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 200 Ames 1910 as Habenaria peramoena;
Native Orchids of North America: 95 Correll 1950 as Habenaria peramoena
Native Orchids of North America: 96 Correll 1950 as Habenaria peramoenadrawing fide;
Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 27: 370 J.Rousseau & Rouleau 1957 as Habenaria psycodes var. fernaldii
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Naturaliste Canad. 94: 525 B Bovin 1967 as Habenaria psycodes f. leucophaeopsis
Fl. New England: 195 F Seym. 1969 as Habenaria psycodes f. nivalis
The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide;
Willdenowia 11: 324 Butzin 1981 as Fimbriella peramoena
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as Fimbriella peramoena drawing fide;
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 8: 30 P M Br. 2002 as P permoena f doddsiae
Wild Orchids of the Prairies and Great Plains of North America P M Brown 2006;
Wild Orchids Canad. Marit. & N. Gr. Lakes: 284 P M Br. 2006 as P psycodes f fernaldii
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008 photo fide;
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 15: 74 P M Br. 2009 as Blephariglottis peramoena f. doddsiae
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 15: 75 P M Br. 2009 as Blephariglottis psycodes f. fernaldii
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #8 2011 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 76 #1 2012 photo fide;
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