purple-fringed orchis

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Noun1.purple-fringed orchis - North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowerspurple-fringed orchis - North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers
fringed orchid, fringed orchis - any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip
2.purple-fringed orchis - North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers
fringed orchid, fringed orchis - any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip
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sinuatus (bugle-weed), Scutellaria galericulata (skull-cap), Solidago lanceolata and squarrosa East Branch (golden-rod), Diplopappus umbellatus (double-bristled aster), Aster radula, Cicuta maculata and bulbifera (water-hemlock), meadowsweet, Lysimachia stricta and ciliata (loose-strife), Galium trifidum (small bed-straw), Lilium Canadense (wild yellow-lily), Platanthera peramna and psycodes (great purple orchis and small purple-fringed orchis), Mimulus ringens (monkey-flower), dock (water), blue flag, Hydrocotyle Americana (marsh pennywort), Sanicula Canadensis?
Platanthera psycodes (small purple-fringed orchis), very common, East Branch and Chesuncook, 1853.
Platanthera fimbriata (large purple-fringed orchis), very common, West Branch and Umbazookskus, 1857.
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