Fringed Orchid - Orange Intermediate It can easily form colonies

It can easily form colonies with each plant having 8 to 12 pitchers

The hoods are broad and ruffled and the lip is thick and deep red

They are bell-shaped

Native Range: Wet Pocosins of the Gulf Coast from Georgia to the Mississippi Delta

cultivation

Fringed Orchid - Orange Intermediate It can easily form coloniesEase to Grow: Moderate Dormancy: Yes Native Range: Peat Bogs of Eastern North America Zones: 4 9 (3 10) Orange Fringed Orchid, Platanthera ciliaris, is stunning in the summer bog garden. It has a large, bright orange cylindrical cluster of 30 75+ dainty flowers with showy, fringed lips and long spurs. It is a late summer bloomer, and flowers last for a month or more. Leaves are long and lanceolate, reducing to small bracts with the flower cluster.