The Crested Yellow Orchid (Platanthera cristata) with up to eighty fringed orange-yellow flowers on a three-foot stem pokes through the grasses of wet flatwoods and pitcherplant savannas from late summer to autumn. Each helmeted flower has a short spur. Of Florida’s four yellow to orange orchids, only the Yellow Fringeless Orchid (P. integra) has shorter fringes on the lip. The genus Platanthera describes its flat anthers and the species name refers to the crest of the flower.
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