Distribution

Description

Flowering	late spring to summer.
Height	15-100 cm.
Inflorescence	a spike.
Leaves	few to many; blade ovate to oblong, rarely lanceolate; bracts reduced distally.
Flowers	green to yellow, resupinate; all margins entire.
Spur	saccate to club shaped.
Rostellum	lobes oriented downward.
Viscidia	circular to subcircular.

Described hybrids

Hybrid	Second Parent
	P.dilatata

Habitat

Seepy areas, fens, meadows, tundra, wet roadside ditches

Conservation and Wetland Status

Threatened and Endangered Status

State	Status
Arizona	Salvage restricted

Wetland Indicator Status 

Facultative Wetland

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Synonyms

Habenaria borealis Chamisso var. viridiflora Chamisso; H. saccata Greene;

Limnorchis stricta (Lindley) Rydberg; Platanthera gracilis Lindley;

P. hyperborea (Linnaeus) Lindley var. viridiflora (Chamisso) Kitamura;

P. hyperborea var. viridiflora (Chamisso) Luer; P. saccata (Greene) Hult?n

Chromosome number

2n = 42

Author and publication information for name

Platanthera stricta Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 288. 1835.

Vernacular name

Slender 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.

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