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Platantherablephariglottis (Willdenow) Lindley. Subgenus:Blephariglottis. Section:Blephariglottis. Small White Fringed Orchid. Phen: Jul-Sep. Hab: Seepages, sandhill-pocosin ecotones. Dist: NL (Newfoundland) west to MI and IL, south to GA.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Taxonomy Comments: Following Brown (2006b), it seems best to recognize the two white-fringed orchids as separate species; they are morphologically distinctive, and where they co-occur their blooming times are offset.
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Horticultural Information
Intro:Erect perennial of boggy streamhead margins and seepages, pitcher plant bogs and sandhill-pocosin ecotones.
Stems:Stem unbranched, smooth.
Leaves:Leaves alternate, sessile-sheathing, strongly ascending, broadly lance-shaped, 2-13 in. long (but reduced to bracts upward) and folded lengthwise ("keeled").
Inforescence:
Flowers:Flowers 20-45 in a dense, cylindrical, terminal raceme; snowy white; about 3/4 in. long; bilaterally symmetric; with 2 small upper petals plus 1 of 3 sepals forming a small hood, beneath which projects a deeply fringed lip-petal bearing a curved spur (longer than the lip, 1/2-1 in.).
Fruits:Fruit an ellipsoid capsule.
Comments:
Height:1 1/2-2 1/2 ft.
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description:Erect perennial of boggy streamhead margins and seepages, pitcher plant bogs and sandhill-pocosin ecotones.
stems:Stem unbranched, smooth.
leaves:Leaves alternate, sessile-sheathing, strongly ascending, broadly lance-shaped, 2-13 in. long (but reduced to bracts upward) and folded lengthwise ("keeled").
inflorescence:
flowers:Flowers 20-45 in a dense, cylindrical, terminal raceme; snowy white; about 3/4 in. long; bilaterally symmetric; with 2 small upper petals plus 1 of 3 sepals forming a small hood, beneath which projects a deeply fringed lip-petal bearing a curved spur (longer than the lip, 1/2-1 in.).
