Eastern prairie fringed-orchid COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Eastern Prairie Fringed-orchid in Canada COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Eastern Prairie Fringed-orchid Platanthera leucophaea in Canada
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Methods
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status
- Summary of Status Report
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Literature Cited
- Biographical Summary of Contractors
- Persons Consulted
- Collections Examined and Fieldwork
Endangered 2003
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2003. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the eastern prairie fringed-orchid Platanthera leucophaea in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 27 pp.
Previous reports
Brownell, V.R. 1986. COSEWIC status report on the eastern prairie white fringed orchid Platanthera leucophaea in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 47 pp.
Production note
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Vivian R. Brownell and Paul M. Catling for writing the update status report on the eastern prairie fringed-orchid Platanthera leucophaea, prepared under contract with Environment Canada.
Eastern prairie fringed-orchid Platanthera leucophaea formerly listed by COSEWIC as eastern prairie white fringed orchid Platanthera leucophaea.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819-953-3215
Fax: 819-994-3684
COSEWIC E-mail
COSEWIC Website
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur la platanthère blanchâtre de l'Est (Platanthera leucophaea) au Canada - Mise à jour.
Cover illustration
Eastern prairie fringed-orchid -- From Mitchell and Sheviak 1981.
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2003
Catalogue No. CW69-14/336-2003F-PDF
ISBN 0-662-75194-9
HTML: CW69-14/336-2003F-HTML
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