Distribution

Description

Flowering	spring to summer.
Height	25-40 cm.
Leaves	few, located basally; blade wide lanceolate to elliptic oblong; bracts 0-1.
Inflorescence	a spike.
Flowers	green to yellow, resupinate; all margins entire.
Spur	terete.
Rostellum	lobes oriented forward.
Viscidia	circular to subcircular.

Habitat

Hanging garden communities of Utah , Colorado and Arizona. 

Typically perched on seepy areas of sandstone cliffs, bluffs, meadows.

Synonyms

Habenaria zothecina L. C. Higgins & S. L. Welsh, Great Basin Naturalist 46: 259. 1986

Author and publication information for name

Platanthera zothecina (L. C. Higgins & S. L. Welsh) Kartesz & Gandhi, Phytologia. 69: 134. 1990.

Vernacular name

Alcove bog orchid

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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.