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White Fringed Orchid (Platanthera blephariglottis) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 Uncommon in the NC coastal plain in savannas, pocosin edges, seepages, etc. | |
White Fringed Orchid (Platanthera blephariglottis) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 Blephariglottis means "eyelash tongue"! | |
White Fringed Orchid (Platanthera blephariglottis) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 White Fringed Orchids have very long spurs. | |
>White Fringed Orchid (Platanthera blephariglottis) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 I observed several Cloudless Sulphurs (Phoebus sennae) nectaring on White Fringed Orchids. | |
White Fringed Orchid (Platanthera blephariglottis) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 |
Yellow Fringed Orchid, Orange Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) Craven Co., NC 28 Aug 2005 In NC uncommon to common statewide, yet always spectacular, Yellow Fringed Orchid grows in savannas, bogs, moist meadows, etc. | |
Yellow Fringed Orchid, Orange Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Yellow Fringed Orchid, Orange Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Yellow Fringed Orchid, Orange Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 Bird's-eye view! |
Yellow-crested Orchid (Platanthera cristata) Craven Co., NC 26 Aug 2007 Uncommon in the NC coastal plain and rare in the mountains, Platanthera cristata grows in high quality habitats like pine savannas. | |
Yellow-crested Orchid (Platanthera cristata) Craven Co., NC 26 Aug 2007 | |
Yellow-crested Orchid (Platanthera cristata) Brunswick Co., NC 11 July 2009 | |
Yellow-crested Orchid (Platanthera cristata) Brunswick Co., NC 11 July 2009 |
Yellow Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera integra) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 Historically statewide in NC, now very rare (threatened) and restricted to a few pine savannas along the coastal plain. | |
Yellow Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera integra) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 | |
Yellow Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera integra) Craven Co., NC 27 Aug 2006 |
Green Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) Alleghany Co., NC 1 July 2005 Uncommon to rare throughout NC, this little beauty grows in bogs, seepages, and other wet soils. | |
Green Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) Alleghany Co., NC 1 July 2005 | |
Green Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) Alleghany Co., NC 1 July 2005 | |
Green Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) Chesapeake, VA 18 June 2014 This small population of Green Fringed Orchids is about 100m north of the NC state line. | |
Green Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) Chesapeake, VA 18 June 2014 | |
Green Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) Chesapeake, VA 18 June 2014 |
Small Green Wood Orchid (Platanthera clavellata) Watauga Co., NC 22 July 2006 Statewide in NC and fairly common in wet, often wooded, areas, this population at 4800' was still mostly in bud. | |
Small Green Wood Orchid (Platanthera clavellata) Watauga Co., NC 22 July 2006 Cauline leaves | |
Small Green Wood Orchid (Platanthera clavellata) Watauga Co., NC 22 July 2006 This individual had an atypically crooked stem. | |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.
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