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Monday, June 15, 2015

Ragged Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera)

Photographic Location: AEDC in Manchester Tennessee
Here is yet another beautiful orchid from my trip to AEDC.

Whitish-green or creamy-yellow flowers with highly-lacerated, 3-parted lip petals are in spike-like clusters.

This orchid is one of the more common and widespread members of the genus. In the Nova Scotia area this species crosses freely with the Greater Purple Fringed Orchid (Platanthera grandiflora). At least 10 other greenish-flowered species occur in the East, but none with the lip so fringed. Lacera means torn referring to the fringed lip.
 
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