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© Eugene Reimer 2004

© David McAdoo 2006

Distribution

Description

Flowering spring to summer.
Height    5-60 cm.

Inflorescence      

 a spike.
Leaves  few to many; blade linear to lanceolate, longer basally, bracts reduced distally.
Flowers green to yellow to white, resupinate; sepal and lip margins entire.
Spur    club shaped to terete.
Rostellum  lobes oriented downward.
Viscidia  circular to subcircular.

 

Habitat

Wet to frequently seasonally wet, insolated to shady areas.  Fens,
wet meadows, tundra to wet roadside ditches.  From organic to mineral soils. 
Usually not found in bogs.  

Conservation and Wetland Status

Threatened and Endangered Status

State Status
New York Exploitably Vulnerable

Chromosome number

2n = 42

 

Author and publication information for name

Platanthera aquilonis  Sheviak, Lindleyana. 14: 193, figs. 1–5. 1999.

Vernacular name

Northern Green Orchid

Link to Platanthera key

http://utc.usu.edu/keys/Platanthera/Platanthera.html

References

C. J. Sheviak  (2003). Flora of North America,
Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales.
Vol. 26:496-571. Oxford University Press.

U.S. Department of Agriculture.
PLANTS Database. http://plants.usda.gov/index.html.
Accessed primarily in July 2006.