orchid, orchidaceous plant - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors

genus Habenaria, Habenaria - chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis

bog candles, bog rein orchid, 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

elegant Habenaria, Habenaria elegans - slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers

coastal rein orchid, Habenaria greenei - stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers

Habenaria orbiculata, 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

Alaska rein orchid, Habenaria unalascensis - similar to coastal rein orchid but with smaller flowers; Alaska to Baja California and east to the Dakotas and Colorado