Chapman's Fringed Orchid is a rare, terrestrial orchid with scattered populations found only in the United States in Florida, Georgia and Texas where it forms stable colonies in it's native habitat of moist open pinelands, wet prairies, and along wet roadside and ditches. This plant grows to 30 inches tall with blue-green leaves up to six inches wide at the base and decreasing in size up to the fluted stem tip. The 4 inch flowers appear in the summer months and are orange in color with a heavily fringed lip.

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