Platanthera ciliaris (Linnaeus) Lindley. Subgenus: Blephariglottis. Section: Blephariglottis. 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.
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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Horticultural Information
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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