Platanthera chlorantha

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Platanthera chlorantha (Custer) Rchb. is a white flowering species with elegant long thin spurs and a green tinge on the lip. They form loose spikes with two big basal leaves as well as a few smaller ones up the stem. They grow in open forests throughout temperate Europe and Russia on alkaline soil. It has slightly bigger flowers than its cousin Platanthera bifolia with which it often shares habitat and sometimes hybridizes, despite the earlier flowering period of P. chlorata. Photos by Martin Bohnet taken in habitat on the Swabian Alp.