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Platanthera lacera (Michx.) G. Don

Common Name: RAGGED FRINGED ORCHID, GREEN-FRINGED ORCHID
Coefficient of Conservatism: 6
Coefficient of Wetness: -3
Wetness Index: FACW
Physiognomy: Nt P-Forb

Habenaria lacera of Michigan Flora.

In bogs, both open and under tamarack or cedars, but also in wet ground generally: moist meadows, ditches, edges of moist forests, swampy thickets. Widespread, but rarely in large nubers at any one site.

Hybrids with P. psycodes [P. × andrewsii (White) Luer] are very rare. Hybrids are intermediate in flower morphology, and collections that appear to be this have been seen from Alger, Emmet, and Keweenaw Cos.

D. Peirce

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Counties
Alger
Allegan
Alpena
Antrim
Baraga
Barry
Bay
Benzie
Berrien
Calhoun
Cass
Charlevoix
Cheboygan
Chippewa
Emmet
Genesee
Gogebic
Hillsdale
Houghton
Ingham
Isabella
Jackson
Kalamazoo
Kalkaska
Kent
Keweenaw
Lake
Lapeer
Leelanau
Lenawee
Livingston
Luce
Mackinac
Macomb
Macomb or St. Clair
Manistee
Marquette
Mason
Mecosta
Midland
Montmorency
Muskegon
Newaygo
Oakland
Ontonagon
Osceola
Otsego
Ottawa
Presque Isle
Roscommon
Saginaw
Schoolcraft
St. Clair
Van Buren
Washtenaw
Wayne

Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. March, 17, 2025
https://lsa-miflora-p.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/#/record/1832