Green fringed-orchid

Platanthera lacera

''Platanthera lacera'' is an orchid in the genus ''Platanthera'', native throughout Eastern United States and Canada. It occurs in a variety of habitats ranging from “mesic and dry-mesic sand prairie, wet sedge meadow, calcareous fen, sphagnum bog, acid seep spring, dry field, mesic flatwoods, and mesic upland forests.”
Common names include ragged fringed orchid and green fringed orchid.
Platanthera lacera Platanthera lacera (White Fringed Orchid) growing near a small isolated marshy pool. I almost missed this one entirely. It was there in 2009 and after that just gone. I've looked each year since in the spot and nothing. Geotagged,Green fringed-orchid,Platanthera lacera,Summer,United States,lacera,white fringed orchid

Appearance

It is a perennial growing 20 to 77 centimeters tall. 2 to 7 lanceolate to narrow elliptic leaves should be present. The inflorescence is a terminal racemic structure, 4 to 25 centimeters long with 15 to 60 whitish-green flowers.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderAsparagales
FamilyOrchidaceae
GenusPlatanthera
SpeciesP. lacera
Photographed in
United States of America