Platanthera integra (Nuttall) A. Gray ex Beck. Subgenus: Blephariglottis. Section: Gymnadeniopsis. Common name: Golden Fringeless Orchid, Yellow Fringeless Orchid. Phenology: Jul-Sep. Habitat: Wet pine savannas in the Coastal Plain, bogs in the Mountains and Piedmont. Distribution: Essentially endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain, ranging from s. NJ south to FL and west to se. TX, with disjunct occurrences in TN (Eastern Highland Rim, Cumberland Plateau) and in bogs in the Piedmont and at low elevations of the Blue Ridge of NC. It is apparently now extirpated in the Mountains and Piedmont of NC.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = AqW, ETx1, FNA26, K4, NS, POWO, Tn, WH3, Brown (2002), Efimov (2016), Luer (1975); = Gymnadeniopsis integra (Nutt.) Rydb. — S, S13; = Habenaria integra (Nutt.) Spreng. — C, F, G, GW1, RAB, Tx, Correll (1950); Orchis integra Nuttall. Basionym: Orchis integra Nutt. 1818
Links to other floras: = Platanthera integra - FNA26
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect perennial found in savannas in the Coastal Plain and bogs in the Mountains and Piedmont.
Stems: Stems unbranched, smooth.
Leaves: Leaves (1-3) alternate, sessile with sheathing base, ascending-spreading, lance-oblong to lance-linear, to 12 in. long (reduced to bracts upward), smooth.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in a dense, cylindric-conical terminal raceme; yellow-orange to pale orange; bilaterally symmetric; consisting of 2 petals and a sepal forming a curved hood, 2 wing-like lateral sepals, a long lip-petal that is either entire or wavy-margined and a slender, tapering spur.
Fruits: Fruit an ellipsoid capsule.
Comments:
Height: 8-25 in.
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description: Erect perennial found in savannas in the Coastal Plain and bogs in the Mountains and Piedmont.
stems: Stems unbranched, smooth.
leaves: Leaves (1-3) alternate, sessile with sheathing base, ascending-spreading, lance-oblong to lance-linear, to 12 in. long (reduced to bracts upward), smooth.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in a dense, cylindric-conical terminal raceme; yellow-orange to pale orange; bilaterally symmetric; consisting of 2 petals and a sepal forming a curved hood, 2 wing-like lateral sepals, a long lip-petal that is either entire or wavy-margined and a slender, tapering spur.
fruits: Fruit an ellipsoid capsule.
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