NameThatPlant.net: Platanthera blephariglottis

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Platanthera blephariglottis FAMILY Orchidaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Platanthera from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera blephariglottis var. blephariglottis FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Platanthera blephariglottis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Platanthera blephariglottis var. blephariglottis

INCLUDED WITHIN (POSSIBLY MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-013a:

Habenaria blephariglottis var. blephariglottis FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (POSSIBLY MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Blephariglottis blephariglottis

COMMON NAME:
Small White Fringed Orchid

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image of Platanthera blephariglottis, Small White Fringed Orchid

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_blbl2_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Platanthera blephariglottis FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera blephariglottis var. blephariglottis FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Platanthera blephariglottis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Platanthera blephariglottis var. blephariglottis

INCLUDED WITHIN (POSSIBLY MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-013a:
Habenaria blephariglottis var. blephariglottis FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (POSSIBLY MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Blephariglottis blephariglottis

1930

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: seepages, sandhill-pocosin ecotones, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, with floral bracts upward

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
3 petals, the two lateral similar and a third (the lip) enlarged
stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary

Raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

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