Habenaria leucophaea (Nutt.) A.Gray
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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 - Stem 4–10 dm; lower lvs lanceolate to broadly linear, 10–20 cm, commonly blunt; upper lvs much reduced; spike cylindric, 8–20 × 5–7 cm; lip and lateral pet white or creamy, the sep green or greenish-white; sep broadly oval to obovate, 7–13 mm; lateral pet broadly obovate-cuneate, toothed, slightly longer than the sep; lip deeply 3-lobed, the terminal lobe short-clawed, very broadly cuneate, usually deeply notched in the center, long-fringed, the lateral lobes fringed to the middle or below; spur slender and elongate; 2n=42. Wet prairies from Mich. and O. to N.D., Nebr., Kans. and La., and rare in bogs and marshes from N.S. and Ont. to O. June, July. Two well marked, largely allopatric, but very similar vars., partly isolated by differences in pollinators.
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Common Names
prairie fringed orchid