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Definition of Habenaria peramoena

1. Noun. Orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Habenaria Peramoena

Literary usage of Habenaria peramoena

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"Ascends to 6ooo ft. in North Carolina. July-Aug. 18. Habenaria peramoena A. Gray. Fringeless Purple Orchis. (Fig. 1113.) Orchis fissa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ..."

2. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"FRINGELESS PURPLE ORCHIS Habenaria peramoena, A. Gray. (Plate XXVII.) IT is sometimes a comfort to the lover of flowers, who vainly seeks to know them by ..."

3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1901)
"A larger amoi in Kenilworth swamp and in the swamp north of Beaver Dam branch. Also a specimen at Magnolia Run. oo.),r Habenaria peramoena A. (¡ray. ..."

4. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1919)
"Habenaria peramoena A. Gray. PURPLE ORCHIS. Ditches and wet meadows. July-Aug. NJ to Mo. and Ala. ..."

5. Flora of the District of Columbia and Vicinity by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1919)
"Habenaria peramoena A. Gray. PURPLE ORCHIS. Ditches and wet meadows. July-Aug. NJ to Mo. and Ala. ..."

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