Platanthera purpurascens (Rydb.) Sheviak & W.F.Jenn. 1997
Photo by © Dan & Raymond and their Native Orchid Flickr Photo WebSite
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Purplish Habenaria - In USA The Short-Spurred Bog Orchis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona and California at elevations of 2500 to 3300 meters to as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a few to several, abruptly diverging to sometimes ascending, oblong to ovate to lanceolate leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 9.6 to 32" [24 to 80 cm] long, very lax to dense, many flowered inflorescence carrying semen scented flowers. . Synonyms Habenaria hyperborea var. purpurascens (Rydb.) Ames 1910; Habenaria purpurascens (Rydb.) Tidestr. 1941; *Limnorchis purpurascens Rydb. 1901; Platanthera hyperborea var. purpurascens (Rydb.) Luer 1975
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 269 Rybd 1901 as Limnorchis purpurescens
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 90 Ames 1910 as Habenaria hyperborea var purpurescens;
Fl. Ariz. New Mex.: 731 Tidestr. 1941 as Habenaria purpurescens
The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada: 234 Luer 1975 as P hyperborea var purpurescens drawing/photos fide;
* N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 3: 445 Sheviak & W.F.Jenn 1997
The Wild Orchids of North America North Of Mexico Brown 2003 photo good;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
