Habenaria integra (Nutt.) Spreng.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Orchidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Slender, 3–6 dm; foliage lf 1(2) narrowly lance-linear, folded, recurved, to 25 cm, the second much smaller; upper lvs several, erect, much reduced and bract-like; infl ovoid or cylindric, dense, 3–9 × 2.5 cm; bracts lance-linear, even the lowest shorter than the ovary; fls golden-yellow, divergent; lip ovate, 5 mm, crenulate or erose; spur 4–8 mm, tapering to the tip; pollen-sacs adjacent and parallel, the viscid ends of the caudicles of the pollinia adjacent and immediately above the orifice to the nectary. Open acid bogs and pine-barrens on the coastal plain; s. N.J. and Del. to Fla. and Tex., n. in the interior to Tenn. (Gymnadeniopsis i.; Platanthera i.)
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Common Names
yellow orchid