Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
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.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera cristata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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
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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.
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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.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Platanthera cristata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera cristata
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in Mountains)
Habitat: pine savannas, bogs, moist roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, with floral bracts upward
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Orange
Bisexual
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
Raceme
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p228
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p217
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p265
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p443
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p185
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p176
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History p130
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p400
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p459
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p027
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p199