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Definition of Ragged orchis
1. Noun. Fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated.
Generic synonyms: Fringed Orchid, Fringed Orchis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragged Orchis
Literary usage of Ragged orchis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1867)
"... we behold a homely representative of one of the most beautiful families of
plants. Everywhere in the open meadows stands this little ragged orchis ..."
2. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"ragged orchis Habenaria lacera (Michx.) R. Br. (Plate XXV., Fig. I.) THESE fantastically
cut and slashed blossoms that make a greenish-yellow maze on the ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"The ragged orchis (P.lacera, Gray) is common by the roadsides of E. Massachusetts,
and found in other parts of, New England; its stem is about a foot high, ..."
4. Report (1913)
"R. Br. ragged orchis. In open woods on the east side. Apparently rare. Epipactis
tesselata (Lodd.) AA Eaton. Checkered Rattlesnake Plantain. ..."
5. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"ragged orchis. Habenaria lacera (Michx.) R. Br. Ann Arbor, Winch. Cat.; Woodward
Lake; Flint; Macomb Co.; Manistee, FP Daniels; north to Keweenaw ..."
6. Historic Mackinac: The Historical, Picturesque and Legendary Features of the by Edwin Orin Wood (1918)
"Apparently rare, only one specimen being noticed. Habenaria lacera (Michx.) R.
Br. ragged orchis. In open woods on the east side. Apparently rare. ..."
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