Platanthera peramoena

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| name = Purple fringeless orchid

| image = Platanthera peramoena Arkansas.jpg

| genus = Platanthera

| species = peramoena

| authority = (A.Gray) A.Gray

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| synonyms = *Habenaria peramoena (A.Gray) A.Gray

• Orchis peramoena (A.Gray) Alph.Wood
• Blephariglottis peramoena (A.Gray) Rydb. in N.L.Britton
• Fimbriella peramoena (A.Gray) Butzin
• Ophrys fimbriata Walter
• Platanthera bigelovii Alph.Wood
• Platanthera fissa auct. non (Muhl. ex Willd.) Lindl.
• Habenaria psycodes var. fernaldii J.Rousseau & Rouleau
• Habenaria psycodes f. leucophaeopsis B.Boivin
• Habenaria psycodes f. nivalis F.Seym.
• Platanthera peramoena f. doddsiae P.M.Br.
• Platanthera psycodes f. fernaldii (J.Rousseau & Rouleau) P.M.Br.
• Blephariglottis peramoena f. doddsiae (P.M.Br.) Baumbach & P.M.Br.
• Blephariglottis psycodes f. fernaldii (J.Rousseau & Rouleau) Baumbach & P.M.Br.

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Platanthera peramoena, the purple fringeless orchid,{{PLANTS|id=PLPE|taxon=Platanthera peramoena|accessdate=7 October 2015}} is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family. It is native to the Eastern United States, where it is found from the Mid-Atlantic states, the Ohio Valley and the Ozark Mountains.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=157330 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families] Its natural habitat is moist forests, marshes, and on streambanks.{{cite web |url=http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm |title= Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States}}

It produces purple flowers in the summer.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101849 Flora of North America, Platanthera peramoena] The moth Hemaris thysbe is considered its main pollinator.{{cite book |title= The Pollination Biology of North American Orchids: Volume 1 |author=Charles L. Argue |year=2011 |isbn=1461405920 |publisher= Springer}}