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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
- texas purple spike orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers; of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas
- habenaria dilatata orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
- pogonia rosea orchid of central and northern South America having 1- to 3-blossomed racemes of large showy rose-colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Pogonia
- phalaenopsis amabilis orchid having large elliptic to obovate fleshy leaves and fragrant pink-and-white flowers dotted with red
- oncidium papilio kramerianum orchid of South and Central America having flowers similar to but smaller than Psychopsis papilio; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium
- round-leaved rein orchid orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States
- purple fringeless orchis 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
- butterfly orchid orchid of Florida and the Bahamas having showy brightly colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Epidendrum
- prairie orchid orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers