Species

Platanthera elegans (Elegant rein orchid)

Platanthera elegans. Photo: (c) Nicholas Wei, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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Piperia elegans is a species of orchid known by several common names, including elegant piperia, coast piperia, hillside rein orchid, and hillside bogorchid. This is a showy flowering plant native to western North America. It grows from a caudex tuber and sends up a thick stem just under a meter in maximum height. The stem is topped with a cylindrical spike inflorescence of densely packed flowers with curving white to greenish-yellow petals. Coastal individuals are noticeably

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Subtaxa

Subspecies: Platanthera elegans elegans (Elegant piperia)

Sightings

Where in Humboldt

Discussion

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