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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Platanthera cristata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may enjoy reading Orchids of the Francis Marion National Forest by Jim Fowler.
Learn more about Crested Fringed Orchid from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Read more and see some beautiful photographs on Jim Fowler's blog: "Weekend orchid hunting along the Carolina coastal plain" (August 2016)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera cristata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Platanthera cristata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-015:
Habenaria cristata FAMILY Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Blephariglottis cristata
COMMON NAME:
Crested Fringed Orchid, Golden Fringed Orchid
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_blcr2_001_lvd
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Jim Fowler jafpcr_0009
July-August Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Flowers about half the size of P. ciliaris, with less extensive fringing, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).
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Jim Fowler jafpcr_0009b
July-August Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
The fringe always seems to look curled or twisted, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Platanthera cristata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera cristata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Platanthera cristata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-015:
Habenaria cristata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Blephariglottis cristata
2143
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: pine savannas, bogs, moist roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, with floral bracts upward
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Orange
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
3 petals, the two lateral similar and a third (the lip) enlarged
stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
Raceme
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p228
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p217
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p265
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p377
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p381
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p182
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p273
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p443
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p185
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p176
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p403
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005) p130
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p400
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p459
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p027
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p199
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