Subspecies
Platanthera elegans elegans (Elegant piperia)
Platanthera elegans elegans. Photo: (c) David A. Hofmann, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
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)
- Species: Platanthera elegans (Elegant rein orchid)
- Section: Piperia (Rein orchids)
- 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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