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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Platanthera lacera
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ORCHIDALES
 FAMILY:   ORCHIDACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Platanthera lacera
 AUTHORITY:  (Michx.) G. Don
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    GREEN  FRINGED ORCHID
    RAGGED FRINGED ORCHID
 
 SYNONOMY:
     Habenaria lacera (Michx.) Lodd.
 
 PLANTS CODE: PLLA2
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         DRY-MESIC
     PRAIRIE
       SAND PRAIRIE
         MESIC
         WET-MESIC
         WET
     WETLAND
       BOG
         LOW SHRUB
         TALL SHRUB
         FORESTED
       SEEP & SPRING
         ACID GRAVEL SEEP
       BORDER OF LAKE
     CULTURAL
       SUCCESSIONAL FIELD
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     CENTRAL
        Upland oak
           White/Black/Northern Red-  Oak
 
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:
     Northeastern Morainal
     Grand Prairie
        Kankakee Sand Area
     Southern Till Plain
     Coastal Plain
        Cretaceous Hills
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           BROWN           CASS            CLAY            COLES
   COOK            DEKALB          FAYETTE         HANCOCK         IROQUOIS
   JACKSON         KANE            KANKAKEE        LAKE            LEE
   MARION          MASSAC          OGLE            POPE            ST. CLAIR
   VERMILION       WILL            WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Monocot
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (rhizomes)   (tubers)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Parallel
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear   Oblong   Lanceolate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Spike
    FLOWER MEROUS:  3
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Irregular
    FLOWER COLOR:   Green   White
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Epigynous
    FRUIT:   Capsule
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      6         MONTH END-      7
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Moist meadows, along small streams in upland prairies; also in upland flat
     Wet woods bordering sinkholes in Missouri
     Sunny parts of acid bogs; also peatty prairie habitats and sometimes in arti-
     ficially disturbed moist peaty areas
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     GROWTH OF SPECIES IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS:
          GRAVEL         No data entered    SAND           Good
          SANDY LOAM     No data entered    LOAM           No data entered
          CLAY LOAM      Good               CLAY           No data entered
          DENSE CLAY     No data entered    ORGANIC SOIL   Good
          NEUTRAL pH     No data entered    ACIDIC SOIL    No data entered
          EXTREMELY ACID No data entered    SALINE SOIL    No data entered
          SODIC SOIL     No data entered    SODIC-SALINE   No data entered
          ROCKY OUTCROPS No data entered    GENTLE SLOPES  No data entered
          MODERATE SLOPE No data entered    STEEP SLOPES   No data entered
     HABITAT:   Wet   Moist
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONS COMMENTS:
     Mediacid soil reaction; silt loams; mucks
 
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     MAJOR DISPERSAL AGENTS:   WIND
     MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT:   INSECT
     MYCORRHIZAE:   endomycorrhizal   obligate
 
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     EDIBLE:  Yes
     LANDSCAPING:  YES     AMOUNT:   Low
 
 HUMAN FACTOR COMMENTS:
     Does not transplant well.  Possible emergency food-tubers and rhizomes.
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Gleason, H. A.  1952.  The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the
     northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.  3 vols.  The New York
     Botanical Garden, New York.
Fernald, M. L., A. C. Kinsey, and R. C. Rollins.  1958.  Edible wild plants of
     eastern North America.  Harper and Brothers, New York.  452 pp.
Sheviak, C. J.  1974.  An introduction to the ecology of the Illinois
     Orchidaceae.  Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers XIV.
     Springfield.  89 pp.
Dressler, R. L.  1981.  The orchids - natural history and classification.
     Harvard University Press.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Platanthera lacera
 
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 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
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