Distribution

Description

Flowering summer to early fall.

Height    15-60 cm.

Inflorescence
a spike.

Leaves usually absent, to a few; blade ovate to obovate; bracts usually reduced to absent.

Flowers
green or yellow, resupinate; lateral and dorsal sepals entire; lip margins entire; lip adaxial surface usually grooved.

Spur    terete, reduced at apex.

Rostellum oriented forward.

Viscidia circular to subcircular.

Habitat

At higher elevations, wet to seasonally wet, to dry.

Synonyms

Habenaria brevifolia Greene, Bot. Gaz. 6: 218. 1881; H. sparsiflora var. brevifolia (Greene) Correll;
Limnorchis brevifolia (Greene) Rydberg; Platanthera sparsiflora var. brevifolia (Greene) Luer

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Author and publication information for name

Platanthera brevifolia (Greene) Kraenzl., Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 639. 1899.

Vernacular name

Short Flowered Bog Orchid

Link to Interactive 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.

Flowering	summer to early fall.
Height	15-60 cm.
Inflorescence	a spike.
Leaves	usually absent, to a few; blade ovate to obovate; bracts usually reduced to absent.
Flowers	green or yellow, resupinate; lateral and dorsal sepals entire; lip margins entire; lip adaxial surface usually grooved.
Spur	terete, reduced at apex.
Rostellum	oriented forward.
Viscidia	circular to subcircular.