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In bogs and swamps, Newfoundland to Minnesota, Florida and Missis- 

 sippi. When growing with the Yellow-fringed Orchis, it blooms a few days 

 earlier. It is found in nearly all the sphagnum bogs of northern New York 

 and is not uncommon in moist depressions of the sandy coastal plain. 

 Flowering from late June until early August in northern New York. 



The Prairie White-fringed Orchis (Blephariglottis leucophaea 

 (Nuttall) Farwell) has larger, white, fragrant flowers, sometimes tinged 

 witli green; the lip three-parted, the segments broadly wedge-shaped and 

 copiously fringed. Most abundant westward but occurring eastward to 

 New England. 



Ragged or Green-fringed Orchis 



Blephariglottis lacera (Michaux) Farwell 



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Stems varying from slender and 1 foot or less high to stout and 2 to 3 

 feet high. Leaves firm, lanceolate, 3 to 8 inches long, two-thirds to if 

 inches wide, decreasing in size upward. Flowers greenish yellow or 

 greenish, in a loose spike, 2 to several inches long; petals linear, blunt, 

 about as long as the sepals; lip three-parted, the segments narrow, deeply 

 fringed or lacerate with a few threads about one-half of an inch long; spur 

 one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, curved and thickened at the end, 

 shorter than the ovary. 



Common in swamps, low meadows and wet woods, Newfoundland to 

 Minnesota, south to Georgia and Arkansas. Flowering in June and July. 

 Forms frequently occur in which the fringe of the lip is very short. 



Smaller Purple-fringed Orchis 

 Blephariglottis psycodes (Linnaeus) Rydberg 



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Stem rather slender, 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves oval, elliptic or lanceo- 

 late, 3 to 10 inches long, two-thirds to 3 inches wide, becoming smaller 

 above, dark green and glossy above. Flowers lilac-purple or rarely white, 

 fragrant, in a dense, many-flowered terminal raceme, 2 to 8 inches long; 

 petals oblong or oblanceolate, toothed on the upper margin; lip three- 



