Index / Search / Platanthera leucophaea
§1 Plant
Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.
vernacular prairie white 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
County-level range
· 109 counties across 12 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 109 counties across 12 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Champaign 17019
- Cook 17031
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Fayette 17051
- Ford 17053
- Fulton 17057
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- Lee 17103
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- Madison 17119
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- McLean 17113
- Menard 17129
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Rock Island 17161
- Stark 17175
- Stephenson 17177
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PLLE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2798308 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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