NOUN
- North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers
- North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers
How To Use purple-fringed orchis In A Sentence
- The handsome, large purple-fringed orchis is also found here. Rural Hours
- The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
- The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
- By the roadside, close to the wheels, I noticed a splendid great purple-fringed orchis with a spike as big as an epilobium, which I would fain have stopped the stage to pluck, but as this had never been known to stop a bear, like the cur on the stage, the driver would probably have thought it a waste of time. The Maine Woods
