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Platanthera candida is an orchid species identified by (Rand.Morgan & Ackerman) R.M.Bateman in 1835. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Platanthera ephemerantha.
ORIGIN: Found in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California in open rocky woodlands and grassy roadsides.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 4, weak and prostrate leaves often withered before blooming which is in the late spring and summer on a terminal, erect, slender, often secund, 4 to 24 [10 to 60 cm] long, 20 to 80 flowered inflorescence with faint honey scented flowers. Plants in full sun have thick, dense inflorescence, plants in shade tend to be laxly flowered.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.15 inches [2.5 to 3 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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