OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Platanthera integra   FAMILY Orchidaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera integra   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

Platanthera integra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-008:

Habenaria integra   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Gymnadeniopsis integra

 

COMMON NAME:
Yellow Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Orchid, Golden Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Arrow


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image of Platanthera integra, Yellow Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Orchid, Golden Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Arrow

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gyin2_001_lvd

        

image of Platanthera integra, Yellow Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Orchid, Golden Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Arrow

Jim Fowler    jafgymintegra_1050814

August    Brunswick County    NC

Green Swamp

Flowers in a dense, cylindrical-conical terminal raceme, golden yellow to pale orange, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

image of Platanthera integra, Yellow Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Orchid, Golden Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Arrow

Jim Fowler    jafgymintegra_2050814

August    Brunswick County    NC

Green Swamp

image of Platanthera integra, Yellow Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Orchid, Golden Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Arrow

Will Stuart    wil_p_integra_0319

August    Brunswick    NC

Green Swamp

image of Platanthera integra, Yellow Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Orchid, Golden Fringeless Orchid, Golden Frog Arrow

Will Stuart    wil_p_integra_0319_crop

August    Brunswick    NC

Green Swamp

The long lip petal is either entire or wavy-margined (vs. the lip of P. cristata deeply fringed), per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Platanthera integra   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Platanthera integra   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Platanthera integra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-008:
Habenaria integra   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gymnadeniopsis integra

 

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2138

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Wet pine savannas in the Coastal Plain, bogs in the Mountains and Piedmont, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare in Coastal Plain (historically in NC Mountains & NC Piedmont, but not recently seen)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, with floral bracts upward

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Saffron yellow or dull 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

 

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