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Inflorescences lax, slender (in part from floral bracts usually shorter than flowers); lip (excluding auricles) subquadrangular, suborbiculate, or broadly ovate, obtuse or often emarginate.


Phenology: Flowering Mar–Oct.
Habitat: Floodplain forests, hardwood, white-cedar, and cypress swamps, riparian thickets, wet meadows
Elevation: 0–300 m

Distribution

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N.S., Ont., Ala., Ark., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., N.C., Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
self-pollination +
2-lobed +  and crenulate +
Charles J. Sheviak +
(Linnaeus) Lindley +
auriculate +
Orchis flava +
indehiscent +
not +  and articulate +
conduplicate +  and plicate +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
lanceolate +  and elliptic-oblong +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
entire +  and slightly crenulate +
N.S. +, Ont. +, Ala. +, Ark. +, D.C. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Ky. +, La. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, N.C. +, Okla. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +  and Va. +
0–300 m +
3-merous +, sessile +  and pedicellate +
yellowish green +
inconspicuous +
ellipsoid;cylindric +
Floodplain forests, hardwood, white-cedar, and cypress swamps, riparian thickets, wet meadows +
lateral +  and terminal +
porrect +  and reflexed +
petiolate +, sessile +  and simple +
duplicate +, convolute +, whorled +, opposite +, distichous +  and alternate +
spreading;ascending +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
reduced +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
descending +  and commonly reflexed +
obtuse +, ovate +, suborbiculate +  and subquadrangular +
larger +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
entire +  and fringed +
differing in form and color +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (?) +  and 1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
slender +  and stout +
1-many-flowered +  and cymose +
pendent +  and erect +
oblong-orbiculate;ovate +
Flowering Mar–Oct. +
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl., +
aerial +  and subterranean +
lancefusiform +
slender +
downward +, directed +  and diverging +
minute +
free +, distinct +, adnate +  and connate +
foliaceous +
not +  and alike +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
cylindric +  and strongly clavate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
leafless +  and leafy +
pendent +  and erect +
proliferous +
thickened +  and stout +
concave +  and convex +
Habenaria flava +  and Perularia scutellata +
Platanthera flava var. flava +
Platanthera flava +
variety +
broadly asymmetric commonly canaliculate +  and nearly cylindric +
aquatic +, lithophytic +, terrestrial +  and epiphytic +
saprophytic +, photosynthetic +  and mycotrophic +
erect to somewhat +