Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Platanthera peramoena
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Platanthera from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera peramoena
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-004:
Habenaria peramoena
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Blephariglottis peramoena
COMMON NAME:
Purple Fringeless Orchid, Purple Spire Orchid, Pride-of-the-peak
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_blpe_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_plpe_003_lvd
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Jim Fowler jafpperamoena_1
July NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Raceme densely or loosely flowered, cylindrical, bracteate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Jim Fowler jafpperamoena_2
July NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_peramoena_10
July
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_peramoena_2
July
Lip petal split into 3 widely spreading lobes, margin serrated not fringed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_p_peramoena_20
July
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Platanthera peramoena
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera peramoena
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-004:
Habenaria peramoena
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Blephariglottis peramoena
2145
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare
Look for it in bogs, seepages, moist forests, moist meadows, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, with floral bracts upward
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Violet-purple/Phlox-purple
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!
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p176
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p048
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History p146
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p403
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p463
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p026