Platanthera peramoena

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Family:ORCHIDACEAE
Species:Platanthera peramoena (A. Gray) A. Gray
Common Name:Purple Fringeless Orchid; Pride of the Peak; Purple Spire Orchid
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Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:Purple Fringeless Orchid is a native herbaceous perennial in the Orchid family (Orchidaceae). It is known from only a few locations in the northern half of the state. Purple Fringeless Orchid grows in alluvial forests, along stream banks, on seepage slopes, and in low, wet meadows. It is a perennial from thick, cord-like roots. There is usually a single stem from each root mass. The stems are from 1-3 feet in height, green in color, glabrous, and slightly ribbed. Leaves are alternate, elliptic to lance-elliptic in outline, glabrous, with entire margins. The leaves are reduced in size upwards on the stem. Flowers are produced in a terminal raceme. Flowers are resupinate (upside down), rose-purple to lavender in color, and have a club-shaped spur. The lip petal is large and deeply three-lobed. The fruit is a capsule with many dust-like seed. Purple Fringeless Orchid is listed as a S1 species in Alabama (typically 5 or fewer occurrences, very few remaining individuals) and globally as a G5 species (secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery). Like all our native orchids, the Purple Fringeless Orchid has a complex relationship with fungi in the soil which make it difficult if not impossible to transplant successfully. No native orchids should be picked or dug.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, S1 (State Rank), G5 (Global Rank)
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyORCHIDACEAE - Orchid family
Genus Platanthera
Species Platanthera peramoena (A. Gray) A. Gray - Purple Fringeless Orchid; Pride of the Peak; Purple Spire Orchid

Citation

Citation Platanthera peramoena (A. Gray) A. Gray, Manual 473. 1848.
Basionym: Habenaria peramoena A. Gray 1840.
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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Blephariglotis peramoena    
Habenaria peramoena    

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Lauderdale, Talladega

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, JSU, UNA

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
UNA00008429 Lauderdale _ Jun 1896 Harrison, John H.
s.n.		 UNA
Habenaria peramoena Gray
ALNHS00002965 Lauderdale 23 Jul 2014 Holt, Brian D.
SC#460		 ALNHS
Platanthera peramoena (A. Gray) A. Gray
JSU113588 Talladega 8 Jul 1995 Ballard, J. Mark
5497		 JSU
Platanthera peramoena (Gray) Gray
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