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Huron green orchid

Platanthera huronensis

Also called Great Lakes Rein Orchid, Lake Huron Green Orchid, Fragrant Green Orchid, Green Bog Orchid, Northern Green Bog Orchid, Intermediate Bog Orchid

Huron green orchid
Photo: Jason Hollinger, CC BY 2.0

Huron green orchid is a native North American terrestrial orchid that grows in wet meadows, bogs and fens rather than as a houseplant. It needs cool, moist, unpolluted conditions and is best left in the wild or grown in a native-plant or bog garden.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist and never let it dry out.
Soil
Moist, acidic, peaty or sandy-peat soil, or sphagnum-rich bog mix.
Temperature
Hardy to cold winters, roughly -30 °C; does best with cool summers.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Aubarctic America to WC. & NE. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Platanthera huronensis, the Huron green orchid, is a species of orchid native to the United States and Canada. It has a discontinuous range, the eastern range including eastern Canada from eastern Manitoba to Labrador, plus New England and the Great Lakes states. The western range extends along the Rocky Mountains from New Mexico to Alberta, as well as the coastal ranges of Washington, British Columbia and southern Alaska (including the Aleutians).

Other Platanthera plants

Platanthera unalascensis · Rein orchid · Green Platanthera · Northern green orchid · Hochstetter's Butterfly Orchid · Platanthera bakeriana · Platanthera bhutanica · Lesser butterfly-orchid · White fringed orchid · Shortflowered bog orchid · Platanthera calceoliformis · Platanthera carnosilabris

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Platanthera huronensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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