Blooms: June-September
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Conservation Status: Abundant; of no concern.

Distribution: Widely distributed through the mountainous and forested areas of Washington; Alaska south to California, east to the Rocky Mountains; also in northeastern in North America.
Habitat: Wet meadows, forest openings, and streambanks from low elevations to the subalpine.

Species Description:

General: Herbaceous perennial with single, densely flowered inflorescences up to 3 ft. tall.
Leaves: Simple, alternate, glabrous, lanceolate, tapering in width from base to tip.
Flowers: Sepals and petals white, sepals widely spreading, two of the petals upright and arching, forming hood-like appearance; lip widest at base and often hanging downward, spurred at base.
Fruits: Capsules, brown at maturity and containing large numbers of tiny seeds.

Distinguishing Characteristics: Flowers with a sweet, spicy fragrance; plants often growing together in fairly large numbers.

Subspecies & Varieties:

Platanthera dilatata (Pursh) Lindl. ex L. C. Beck

Treated in Flora of the PNW as:

PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Platanthera dilatata specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.

WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Platanthera dilatata specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.

Washington Flora Checklist: Platanthera dilatata treatment.

E-Flora BC: Platanthera dilatata atlas page.

CalPhotos: Platanthera dilatata images.

USDA Plants Database: Platanthera dilatata.