Platanthera integrilabia (Correll) Luer

The description of Platanthera integrilabia is based on a limited sample and is likely too restrictive.

Flowers of this species are nocturnally sweet-scented. The vegetative habit is distinctive, with leaves restricted to the base of the stem and a relatively few-flowered inflorescence borne atop a tall bracted scape. In addition to the normal tuberoid, roots often enlarge distally to form bud-bearing tuberoids at a marked distance from the parent stem, giving rise to diffuse clonal colonies.

Plants 50–80 cm. Leaves 2(–3), spreading to ascending, on basal portion of stem, abruptly reduced to bracts distally; blade lanceolate to elliptic, 12–23 × 1–3.2 cm. Spikes rather lax. Flowers resupinate, showy, white; lateral sepals reflexed; petals oblong, margins entire; lip porrect, spatulate to lance-spatulate, without basal thickening, 10–15 × 2.5–4 mm, margins slightly lacerate to subentire; spur slenderly cylindric, scarcely clavate, 35–60 mm; rostellum lobes directed forward, spreading, angular; rostellum lobes slenderly curving forward, slightly spreading, angular-elongate, long; pollinaria with stalks curved forward; pollinia remaining enclosed in anther sacs; viscidia orbiculate; ovary slender, ca.16–22 mm.

Ala., Ga., Ky., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn.

Flowering (Jun--)Jul--Aug.

Wet wooded flats, seeping slopes, marshes, sphagnum bogs; of conservation concern; mostly 100--700m.

Habenaria blephariglottis (Willdenow) Hooker var. integrilabia Correll, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 153. 1941; H. correlliana Cronquist