rred --33.
32b. Flowers in terminal racemes, spurred --38.
33a. Leaves a whorl of 5 (2-3 dm. high; petals greenish; late summer)
=Whorled Pogonia, Pogonia verticillata.=
33b. Leaves alternate --34.
34a. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 2-8 cm. long, narrowed at
base; flower terminal (1-4 dm. high; flowers pink purple,
early summer) =Snake Mouth, Pogonia ophioglossoides.=
34b. Leaves ovate, 1-2 cm. long, clasping; flowers axillary (5-20
cm. high; flowers purple, summer)
=Nodding Pogonia, Pogonia trianthophora.=
35a. Leaf basal; spur nearly straight
=Rein Orchis, Habenaria obtusata.=
35b. Leaf on the stem; spur strongly curved
=Rein Orchis, Habenaria clavellata.=
36a. Flower-stalk without bracts below the raceme; flowers
yellowish-green =Rein Orchis, Habenaria hookeri.=
36b. Flower-stalk bearing bracts below the raceme; flowers
greenish-white --37.
37a. Spur 15-25 mm. long =Rein Orchis, Habenaria orbiculata.=
37b. Spur 30-50 mm. long =Rein Orchis, Habenaria macrophylla.=
38a. Lip fringed (Fringed Orchis) --43.
38b. Lip not fringed (Rein Orchis) --39.
39a. Lip with 2-3 evident teeth at apex --40.
39b. Lip without apical teeth --41.
40a. Stem-leaves 3 or more =Rein Orchis, Habenaria bracteata.=
40b. Stem-leaves 2 --35b.
41a. Flowers white =Rein Orchis, Habenaria dilatata.=
41b. Flowers greenish-yellow --42.
42a. Lip lanceolate, tapering toward the apex
=Rein Orchis, Habenaria hyperborea.=
42b. Lip oblong, truncate at the apex
=Rein Orchis, Habenaria flava.=
43a. Lip deeply 3-lobed, toothed or fringed --44.
43b. Lip not 3-lobed, but deeply fringed --46.
44a. Flowers purple =Purple Fringed Orchis, Habenaria psycodes.=
44b. Flowers white or nearly so --45.
45a. Spur 3 cm. long or more
=Prairie Fringed Orchis, Habenaria leucophaea.=
45b. Spur 1-1.5 cm. long =Ragged Fringed Orchis, Habenaria lacera.=
46a. Flowers yellow =Yellow Fringed Orchis, Habenaria ciliaris.=
46b. Flowers white
=White Fringed Orchis, Ha
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