ORCHIDACEAE - - Orchid Family

Platanthera nivea (Nuttall) Luer — Snowy Orchid, Bog-spike

Habitat:

Wet savannas. Essentially a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic. This species is even more irregular than most Platanthera in its flowering, whole populations sometimes not flowering for a number of years. The flowers are so white as to seem illuminated from within. This species was once locally abundant in the outer Coastal Plain of the Carolinas and farther south.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.

Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].