Greater Butterfly-orchid (Platanthera chlorantha). From Wordnik.com. [The Magpie's Hoard] Reference
White bog-orchid, Platanthera dilatata, hidden in plain sight. From Wordnik.com. [BC Bloggers] Reference
Many of the group Habenaria or Platanthera, to which this flower belongs, are similarly planned. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
Platanthera psycodes (small purple-fringed orchis), very common, East Branch and Chesuncook, 1853. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
Platanthera fimbriata (large purple-fringed orchis), very common, West Branch and Umbazookskus, 1857. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
German pamphlet by Hermann Muller on the gradation and distinction of the forms of Epipactis and of Platanthera?. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Platanthera orbiculata (large round-leaved orchis), very common in woods, Moosehead and Chamberlain carries, Caucomgomoc, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
Platanthera; and if it is also Satyrion I will promise that it shall prove only nauseous and distasteful to our good Captain, and by no means deadly. From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
One evening last week, after a fruitless solo trek in search of lady's tresses (Spiranthes) and green wood orchids (Platanthera clavellata), I stopped by Bill's cedar-shingled bungalow, which is barely visible from the narrow road adjoining the dirt trail that leads to his house. From Wordnik.com. [www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly] Reference
Sierra Bog Orchid (Platanthera leuchostachys) along the Florence Lake Road, Sierra National Forest. From Wordnik.com. [If I Ran the Zoo] Reference
Platanthera, H. Muller on. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Platanthera. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
On Epipactis and Platanthera. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Platanthera, orchid group, 192. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
The most common flowers of the river and lake shores were: Thalictrum cornuti (meadow-rue), Hypericum ellipticum, mutilum, and Canadense (St. John's-wort), horsemint, horehound, Lycopus Virginicus and Europaeus, var. sinuatus (bugle-weed), Scutellaria galericulata (skull-cap), Solidago lanceolata and squarrosa East Branch (golden-rod), Diplopappus umbellatus (double-bristled aster), Aster radula, Cicuta maculata and bulbifera (water-hemlock), meadow-sweet, Lysimachia stricta and ciliata (loose-strife), Galium trifidum (small bed-straw), Lilium Canadense (wild yellow-lily), Platanthera peraoena and psycodes (great purple orchis and small purple-fringed orchis), Mimulus ringens (monkey-flower), dock (water), blue flag, Hydrocotyle Americana (marsh pennywort), Sanicula Canadensis?. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
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