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nounany of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
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- chatterbox orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf
- epipactis gigantea orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf
- psychopsis papilio orchid of South America and Trinidad having large yellow and reddish-brown flowers; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium
- purple fringeless orchid 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
- prairie white-fringed orchis orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers
- hooded ladies' tresses orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America
- frog orchid orchid having hooded long-bracted green to yellow-green flowers suffused with purple
- satyr orchid orchid with broad ovate leaves and long-bracted green very irregular flowers
- listera ovata orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia
- ram's-head orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head