Small Purple Fringed Orchid – Native Plant of the Day 06/29/2024
Photo from 6/28/2014. Location: Clingman’s Dome, GSMNP, Swain County, NC.
More photos / info at the Platanthera psycodes detail page.
Small Purple Fringed Orchid – Platanthera psycodes
Also NPOD 06/24/2016, 06/29/2017, 06/29/2018, 06/29/2019, 06/29/2020, 06/29/2021, 06/29/2022, 06/29/2023
These little gems showed up last year on my property in N.E. VT- I’d never seen them before. Now I have cultivated them in my garden and they are to be found in several other north facing sites on my property. I love them, they really make a beautiful show on mid-July. They seem to like moist, rich acid soil with a northern exposure.