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Orchidaceae
Platanthera

not marked as a favorite taxon Platanthera ciliaris (Linnaeus) Lindley. Common name: Yellow Fringed Orchid. Phenology: Jun-Sep; Aug-Nov. Habitat: Pine savannas, moist roadbanks, meadows, pastures, bogs, marshes. Distribution: NH, MI, IL, MO, and OK south to c. peninsular FL and e. TX.

Glossary (beta!)

Subgenus: Blephariglottis. Section: Blephariglottis.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Other Comments: P. ciliaris is probably our most common and least habitat-specific Platanthera.

Synonymy ⓘ: = AqW, Ar, Can, ETx1, FNA26, Il, K4, Mi, Mo1, NcTx, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, Tn, Va, W, WH3, Brown (2002), Efimov (2016), Luer (1975); = Blephariglottis ciliaris (L.) Rydb. — S; = Habenaria ciliaris (L.) R.Br. — C, F, G, GW1, RAB, Tat, Tx, WV, Correll (1950); Orchis ciliaris Linnaeus. Basionym: Orchis ciliaris L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Platanthera ciliaris - FNA26

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW
  • Great Plains: FACW
  • Midwest: FACW
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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image #1 of Platanthera ciliaris© Jim Fowler | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Platanthera ciliaris© Jim Fowler | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Platanthera ciliaris© Floyd A. Griffith | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Platanthera ciliaris© Alan M. Cressler | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Platanthera ciliaris© Sonnia Hill | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Platanthera ciliaris© Floyd A. Griffith | Original Image ⭷
image #7 of Platanthera ciliaris© Sonnia Hill | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Platanthera ciliaris© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #10 of Platanthera ciliaris© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #11 of Platanthera ciliaris© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image #12 of Platanthera ciliaris© Alan Cressler: Platanthera ciliaris, Lookout Mountain, Walker County, Georgia 1 by Alan Cressler source | Original Image ⭷
image #15 of Platanthera ciliaris© Sonnia Hill | Original Image ⭷
image #19 of Platanthera ciliaris© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect perennial of sunny, moist sites in savannas, rights-of-way, meadows, pastures and bogs.

Stems: Stems unbranched, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile-clasping, strongly ascending, lance-shaped, 2-12 in. long (reduced up the stem) and folded lengthwise (keeled).

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers 30-60 in a dense, cylindrical terminal raceme with leafy bracts; orange; about 1 1/2 in. long; bilaterally symmetric; with 2 upper petals and a sepal forming a hood, 2 additional wing-like sepals, and a deeply fringed lip-petal bearing a mostly straight spur about 1 in. long.

Fruits: Fruit a semi-erect, ellipsoid capsule.

Comments:

Height: 10-28 in.

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description: Erect perennial of sunny, moist sites in savannas, rights-of-way, meadows, pastures and bogs.

stems: Stems unbranched, smooth.

leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile-clasping, strongly ascending, lance-shaped, 2-12 in. long (reduced up the stem) and folded lengthwise (keeled).

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers 30-60 in a dense, cylindrical terminal raceme with leafy bracts; orange; about 1 1/2 in. long; bilaterally symmetric; with 2 upper petals and a sepal forming a hood, 2 additional wing-like sepals, and a deeply fringed lip-petal bearing a mostly straight spur about 1 in. long.

fruits: Fruit a semi-erect, ellipsoid capsule.

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native range: eastern North America



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