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A Purple Fringeless Orchid blooming in Carroll Co., Maryland (7/21/2015). View Record Details Media by Jim Brighton.

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Purple fringeless orchid

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Genus:	Platanthera
Species:	P. peramoena
Binomial name
*Platanthera peramoena* (A.Gray) A.Gray
Synonyms^[1]
Habenaria peramoena (A.Gray) A.Gray Orchis peramoena (A.Gray) Alph.Wood Blephariglottis peramoena (A.Gray) Rydb. in N.L.Britton Fimbriella peramoena (A.Gray) Butzin Ophrys fimbriata Walter Platanthera bigelovii Alph.Wood Platanthera fissa auct. non (Muhl. ex Willd.) Lindl. Habenaria psycodes var. fernaldii J.Rousseau & Rouleau Habenaria psycodes f. leucophaeopsis B.Boivin Habenaria psycodes f. nivalis F.Seym. Platanthera peramoena f. doddsiae P.M.Br. Platanthera psycodes f. fernaldii (J.Rousseau & Rouleau) P.M.Br. Blephariglottis peramoena f. doddsiae (P.M.Br.) Baumbach & P.M.Br. Blephariglottis psycodes f. fernaldii (J.Rousseau & Rouleau) Baumbach & P.M.Br.

Platanthera peramoena, the purple fringeless orchid,^[2] is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family. It is native to the Eastern United States, where it is found from the Mid-Atlantic states, the Ohio Valley and the Ozark Mountains.^[1] Its natural habitat is moist forests, marshes, and on streambanks.^[3]

It produces purple flowers in the summer.^[4] The moth Hemaris thysbe is considered its main pollinator.^[5]

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^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ NRCS. "Platanthera peramoena". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 7 October 2015.
^ "Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States".
^ Flora of North America, Platanthera peramoena
^ Charles L. Argue (2011). The Pollination Biology of North American Orchids: Volume 1. Springer. ISBN 1461405920.

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Platanthera peramoena

Habenaria peramoena

Purple Fringeless Orchid

Platanthera peramoena (Gray) Gray

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