Participant Info

Species

Platanthera huronensis [Orchis huronensis] [Limnorchis hyperborea] [Platanthera hyperborea var. huronensis]

Family

Orchidaceae

CommonName

Lake Huron green bog orchid, tall northern green orchid

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1986

LatestDate

2014

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

SSanjuans

Counties

Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Saguache, San Juan

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande Co, SW side of Bennett Peak 22 July 2014

Comments

Tall northern bog orchid is a higher elevation Platanthera—growing in seeps, fens, lake sides, and other wet habitats from montane to subalpine. In the Watershed Platanthera huronensis has been collected only from the southern San Juans. In New Mexico it follows the Rio Grande drainage, in mountains on both sides of the valley, as far as Otero Co (but no farther down stream in Texas). The USA distribution is mainly the Rocky Mountains up to the Canadian border, the Washington Cascades, and—true to its specific epithet—the Great Lakes on up into Maine.

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