Variety
Platanthera dilatata leucostachys (Sierra bog orchid)
Platanthera dilatata leucostachys. Photo: (c) brodiaea_max, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Platanthera dilatata, known as tall white bog orchid, bog candle, or boreal bog orchid is a species of orchid, a flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to North America. It was first formally described in 1813 by Frederick Traugott Pursh as Orchis dilatata.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Class: Liliopsida (Monocots)
- Order: Asparagales (Agaves, orchids, irises, and allies)
- Family: Orchidaceae (Orchids)
- Subfamily: Orchidoideae (Orchidoid orchids)
- Tribe: Orchideae
- Subtribe: Orchidinae
- Genus: Platanthera (Bog orchids)
- Species: Platanthera dilatata (White bog orchid)
- Variety: Platanthera dilatata leucostachys (Sierra bog orchid)
- Species: Platanthera dilatata (White bog orchid)
- Genus: Platanthera (Bog orchids)
- Subtribe: Orchidinae
- Tribe: Orchideae
- Subfamily: Orchidoideae (Orchidoid orchids)
- Family: Orchidaceae (Orchids)
- Order: Asparagales (Agaves, orchids, irises, and allies)
- Class: Liliopsida (Monocots)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
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