Platanthera blephariglottis (Willdenow) Lindley. Subgenus: Blephariglottis. Section: Blephariglottis. Common name: Small White Fringed Orchid. Phenology: Jul-Sep. Habitat: Seepages, sandhill-pocosin ecotones. Distribution: 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. Hartvig et al. (2022) argued that spur length difference is geographically clinal, associated with different pollinators, and that the variation should be regarded as taxonomically meaningless
Synonymy ⓘ: = K4, Mi, Va; = Blephariglottis albiflora Raf.; = Blephariglottis blephariglottis (Willd.) Rydb. — S, S13, possibly misapplied; = Habenaria blephariglottis (Willd.) Hook. var. blephariglottis — C, F, Correll (1950), possibly misapplied; = Platanthera blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindl. var. blephariglottis — AqW, Can, FNA26, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, Luer (1975); < Habenaria blephariglottis (Willd.) Hook. — GW1, Tat; < Habenaria blephariglottis (Willd.) Hook. var. blephariglottis — RAB; < Platanthera blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindl. — Il, W, Efimov (2016), Hartvig et al (2022). Basionym: Orchis blephariglottis Willd. 1805
Links to other floras: = Platanthera blephariglottis var. blephariglottis - FNA26
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
- Midwest: OBL
- Northcentral & Northeast: OBL
Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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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.).
fruits: Fruit an ellipsoid capsule.
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