prairie orchid

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prairie orchid - orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers

Habenaria leucophaea, prairie white-fringed orchis

fringed orchid, fringed orchis - any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip

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$270,000; 1254 Prairie Orchid Lane, Grayslake, 60030; Sold on May 17, 2019, by Burt B.

Antioch Barrington Buffalo Grove Deerfield Fox Lake Grayslake Gurnee Hainesville Hawthorn Woods Highland Park Highwood Ingleside Island Lake Lake Bluff Lake Forest Lake Villa Lake Zurich Libertyville Lincolnshire Lindenhurst Mundelein Round Lake Round Lake Beach Wauconda Waukegan Zion

Precipitation and fire effects on flowering of a rare prairie orchid. Great Plains Res., 16:37-43.

Effects of weather and land management on the Western prairie fringed-orchid (Platanthera praeclara) at the Northern limit of its range in Manitoba, Canada

These studies were conducted in conjunction with studies on the natural history of a prairie orchid (Platanthera praeclara) occurring at three of the prairies.