Subspecies

Platanthera elegans elegans (Elegant piperia)

Platanthera elegans elegans. Photo: (c) David A. Hofmann, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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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

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)
        Section: Piperia (Rein orchids)
        Species: Platanthera elegans (Elegant rein orchid)
        Subspecies: Platanthera elegans elegans (Elegant piperia)

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