Index / Search / Platanthera grandiflora
§1 Plant
Platanthera grandiflora (Bigelow) Lindl.
vernacular greater purple fringed orchid — species · Orchidaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Orchidaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Platanthera
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
County-level range
· 152 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 152 counties across 15 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chenango 36017
- Cortland 36023
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Fulton 36035
- Genesee 36037
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Oneida 36065
- Oswego 36075
- Rensselaer 36083
- Rockland 36087
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
- Wyoming 36121
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Cambria 42021
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Northampton 42095
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 12 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PLGR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2797851 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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