12. Blephariglottis Raf. Fl. Tell. 2: 38. 1836
Description
This section is from the book "An Illustrated Flora Of The Northern United States, Canada And The British Possessions Vol1", by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown. Also available from Amazon: An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 Volume Set..
12. Blephariglottis Raf. Fl. Tell. 2: 38. 1836
Plants with tall and leafy stems and fleshy or tuberous roots. Flowers several or numerous in an open spike with foliaceous bracts; corolla white, yellow or purple; sepals broad and spreading or reflexed; lip variously fringed or 3-parted and cut-toothed; spur longer than the lip. Anther-sacs widely separated and usually diverging, their narrow beaklike bases supported by the arms of"the stigma, strongly projecting forward and upward; gland naked; pollinia granular. [Greek, fringed throat.]
About 10 species of North America. Type species: Blephariglottis albiflora Raf.
Lip not 3-parted, pectinately fringed. | ||
Spur half as long as the ovary; flowers yellow. | 1. | B. cristata. |
Spur longer than the ovary. | ||
Flowers bright yellow. | 2. | B. ciliaris. |
Flowers white. | 3. | B. blephariglottis. |
Lip 3-parted. | ||
Segments of the lip deeply fringed. | ||
Segments narrow; fringe of a few threads. | 4. | B. lacera. |
Segments broadly fan-shaped; fringe copious. | ||
Segments fringed to the middle or deeper; flowers white. | 5. | B. leucophaea. |
Segments not fringed beyond the middle; flowers lilac, rarely white. | ||
Raceme 4-5 cm. thick; lip 1-2 cm. broad. | 6. | B. grandiflora. |
Raceme 1-3 cm. thick; lip 8-12 mm. broad. | 7. | B. psycodes. |
Segments of the lip cut-toothed; flowers violet-purple. | 8. | B. peramoena. |
1. Blephariglottis Cristata (Michx.) Raf. Crested Yellow Orchis
Fig. 1373
Orchis cristata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 156. 1803. Habenaria cristata R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 5:
194. 1813. Blephariglottis cristata Raf. Fl. Tell. 2: 39. 1836.
Stem slender, angled, 8'-2º high. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 2's' long, 3"-8" wide, the upper much smaller, similar to the bracts; bracts as long as the flowers; spike 2'-4' long, dense; flowers orange; sepals roundish-ovate, about 1 1/2" long, the lateral ones spreading; petals narrower, pectinate-fringed; lip slightly longer than the sepals, not 3-parted, but deeply fringed to the middle or beyond; spur 2"-3" long, about half as long as the ovary; anther-sacs divergent at the base, widely separated.
In bogs, New Jersey to Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana. July-Aug. A hybrid between this species and B. blephariglottis, from Delaware, is known as Habenaria Cdnbyi Ames.
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