Platanthera grandiflora, commonly called Greater Purple Fringed Bog Orchid, is found across the East Coast of the United States and Canada, from Georgia to Quebec. It has 2-6 wide, spreading leaves along its stem and produces a showy inflorescence of …

A very showy bog orchid, Platanthera grandiflora (Greater Purple Fringed Orchid) is a stout herbaceous perennial boasting racemes of up to 55 pink to purple (rarely white) flowers. The showy flowers consist of three lobes and a labellum that is deeply fringed.

Greater purple fringed bog-orchid is an eye-catching plant when in bloom. It is pollinated primarily by large butterflies and moths. The Iroquois made a tea of the dried roots that they used as protection against ghosts. Anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats), bogs, forests, meadows and fields, swamps, wetland margins (edges of wetlands)

Large Purple Fringed Orchid, Plume-royal. Phen: Jun-early Jul. Hab: Bogs, seepages, moist places at high elevations. Dist: NL (Newfoundland) and ON south to NJ, OH, and MI, and south in the mountains to w.

The showy flowers of Platanthera grandiflora can be found from June through August. The flowers consist of three lobes and a labellum that is deeply fringed, with colors ranging from pink to purple and rarely white (See Figure 1 below for evidence of the rare white inflorescence).

Platanthera grandiflora is a widespread perennial herb occurring in marshes, bogs, stream banks, old fields, and wooded slopes of Newfoundland, Labrador, and Ontario, Canada to North Carolina, Kentucky, and Georgia, United States.

Platanthera grandiflora. Greater Purple Fringed Orchid. View Profile. overview characteristics geography timeline information & media contact. Overview. Scientific Name. Platanthera grandiflora. Common Name. greater purple fringed orchid. Kingdom. Plantae.

The purple to (rarely) white flowers of P. grandiflora are found in a fragrant, relatively loose raceme that can measure almost a foot high on large plants. Individual flowers have deeply fringed, almost “fan-shaped” lower petals and lateral sepals.

Platanthera grandiflora, the greater purple fringed orchid, [1] is a species of orchid, genus Platanthera, occurring from Ontario to Newfoundland, south along the Appalachian Mountains to northeastern Georgia, with an isolated population in Illinois.

DESCRIPTION: Herbaceous perennial, 5-12 dm.; flowering June-July. SIMILAR SPECIES: Very similar to, and often confused with, the more frequent Platanthera psycodes (Small Purple Fringed Orchid), but much larger in height and in dimensions of …