Platanthera peramoena

(A. Gray) A. Gray

Manual, 473. 1848.

Endemic
Basionym: Habenaria peramoena A. Gray Amer. J. Sci. Arts 38: 310. 1840
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 565. Mentioned on page 552.

Plants 35–105 cm. Leaves 2–5, spreading to ascending, scattered along stem, gradually reduced to bracts distally; blade lanceolate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblance-oblong, 7–27 × 1.2–5 cm. Spikes lax to dense. Flowers resupinate, showy, rose-purple; lateral sepals somewhat reflexed; petals oblong-linear to spatulate, distally crenate to entire; lip descending to somewhat porrect, deeply 3-lobed, without basal thickening, 11–20 × 12–23 mm, distal margins of lobes dentate-lacerate, rarely nearly entire, lateral lobes narrowly cuneate, middle lobe broadly cuneate-flabellate, emarginate to 2-fid; spur clavate, 20–30 mm; rostellum lobes directed forward, spreading, angular; pollinaria straight to geniculate; pollinia directed forward; viscidia orbiculate; ovary slender, 13–23 mm.


Phenology: Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug(–Oct).
Habitat: Alluvial forests, wet wooded flats, stream banks, seeping slopes, marshes, moist prairies, old fields and pastures, ditches, thickets
Elevation: 0–800 m

Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Del., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., Md., Miss., Mo., N.J., N.C., Ohio, Pa., S.C., Tenn., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Habenaria peramoena +
Ala. +, Ark. +, Del. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Ky. +, Md. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, N.J. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
0–800 m +
Alluvial forests, wet wooded flats, stream banks, seeping slopes, marshes, moist prairies, old fields and pastures, ditches, thickets +
Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug(–Oct). +
Platanthera peramoena +
Platanthera +
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