English > fringed orchid: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip. |
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| Synonym | fringed orchis |
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| Member of | Habenaria, genus Habenaria | chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes |
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| Narrower | Hooker's orchid, Habenaria hookeri | A long-spurred orchid with base leaves and petals converging under the upper sepal |
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| prairie orchid, prairie white-fringed orchis, Habenaria leucophaea | orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers |
| purple-fringed orchid, purple-fringed orchis, Habenaria psycodes | North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers |
| purple-fringed orchid, purple-fringed orchis, Habenaria fimbriata | North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers |
| purple fringeless orchid, purple fringeless orchis, Habenaria peramoena | orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple ... / purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions |
| ragged orchid, ragged orchis, ragged-fringed orchid, green fringed orchis, Habenaria lacera | fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated |
| snowy orchid, Habenaria nivea | Slender fringed orchid of eastern North America having white flowers |
| white fringed orchis, white fringed orchid, Habenaria albiflora | bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers |
| Broader | orchid, orchidaceous plant | Any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors |
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