Platanthera aquilonis Sheviak 1999
Photo courtesy of © Bill Temple
TYPE Drawing by © Sheviak
Common Name The North Wind Platanthera [refers to the species far north ranging distribution]
Flower Size
Found in Alaska, North West Territories, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Labrador, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Islands, Nova Scotia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine as a mini-miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a fascile of fleshy roots and a lance-fusiform tuberoid giving rise to an erect stem carrying few to several, linear-lanceolate, ascending to arcuate-spreading, , scattered along the stem, gradually grading into bracts above leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on a terminal, erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, lax to densely many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Limnorchis aquilonis (Sheviak) Rebrist. & Elven 2008; Limnorchis aquilonis f. alba (M.H.S.Light) P.M.Br., S.L.Stewart & Gamarra 2009; Platanthera hyperborea f. alba M.H.S.Light 1989
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lindleyana 4: 158 MHS Light 1989 as P hyperborea f alba
* Lindleyana 14: 193 Sheviak 1999 phot/drawing fide
J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 434 Rebrist. & Elven 2008 as Limnorchis aquionis;
N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 15: 78 P.M.Br., S.L.Stewart & Gamarra 2009 as Limnorchis aquilonis f alba
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #4 2011 photo fide;
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