Platanthera integrilabia (Correll) Luer 1975
Photos by © Brad Wilson
Plant and Flowers in situ Tennesee
Photos by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Smooth Rimmed Lip Platanthera -
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Found in southeastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, northeastern Mississippi, northern Alabama, northwest Georgia, southwest North Carolina and northwest South Carolina in very shady, wet deciduous woods as a medium to just large sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 3,elliptic to lanceolate, green, keeled, basally clasping leaves grading to a few bracts above, that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, loose, racemose, to 24" [to 60 cm] long, 6 to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts..
Synonyms Blephariglottis integrilabia (Correll) W.J.Schrenk 1977; *Habenaria blephariglottis var. integrilabia Correll 1941, Habenaria correlliana Cronquist 1991;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 2 1996 photo fide; Wild Orchids Across America Keenan 1998; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #1 2010 photo fide;
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