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Orchidaceae
Platanthera

Platanthera conspicua (Nash) P.M. Brown. Common name: Large White Fringed Orchid. Phenology: Jul-Sep. Habitat: Pine savanna, seepages, longleaf pine sandhill-pocosin ecotone. Distribution: NC south to c. peninsular FL, west to e. TX.

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Subgenus: Blephariglottis. Section: Blephariglottis.

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: Brown (2006b) and Sheviak in FNA (2002a) clarified the taxonomy of this complex; previous studies (such as Hardin 1961) used different characters, and interpreted the white-fringed orchid taxa differently.

Synonymy ⓘ: = K4; = Blephariglottis conspicua (Nash) Small — S, S13; = Habenaria blephariglottis (Willd.) Hook. var. conspicua (Nash) Ames — C, F; = Platanthera blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindl. var. conspicua (Nash) Luer — AqW, ETx1, FNA26, NS, POWO, WH3, Brown (2002), Luer (1975); < Habenaria blephariglottis (Willd.) Hook. — GW1, Tx; < Habenaria blephariglottis (Willd.) Hook. var. blephariglottis — RAB, Correll (1950); < Platanthera blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindl. — Efimov (2016), Hartvig et al (2022); Habenaria conspicua Nash. Basionym: Habenaria conspicua Nash 1896

Links to other floras: = Platanthera blephariglottis var. conspicua - FNA26

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 9

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image of plant© Alan Cressler: Platanthera conspicua (Platanthera blephariglottis var. conspicua), Cumbee No. 1, Francis Marion National Forest, Berkeley County, South Carolina 2 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
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image of plant© Alan Cressler: Platanthera conspicua, and Sarracenia rubra subsp. viatorum, Fall Line Sandhills, Taylor County, Georgia 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
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image of plant© Alan Cressler: Platanthera conspicua, Fall Line Sandhills, Taylor County, Georgia 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
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