US 2020 Greater Purple Fringed Bog Orchid ; Coil 55c. Scott. 5435


US 2020 Greater Purple Fringed Bog Orchid ; Coil 55c. Scott. 5435


Series: Wild Orchids (2020)

Stamp details: Greater Purple Fringed Bog Orchid (Platanthera grandiflora)

Issued date: 21-02-2020 (dd/mm/yyyy)

Face value: 55c.
(FOREVER º - No Face Value)

Emission: Definitive (Coil)

Format: Coil of 3,000 OR 10,000

First Day City: Coral Gables, Florida

Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 5435
Stanley Gibbons (UK): 6066
Michel (Germany): 5690
Unificato (Italy): 5849

Dimensions (height x width):
25mm x 22.25mm

Designers: Ethel Kessler (designer) ; Jim Fowler (photographer)

Printer: Banknote Corporation of America

Printing Method: Offset

Stamp Colors: Multicolored

Perforation: Serpentine Die Cut 10¾ Vertically

Gum type: Self-Adhesive

Themes: Flowers, Orchids, Plants

Total print: 6,500,000 (estimate)

Note: Face value US$0.55 on day of issue.

Description:- Platanthera grandiflora, the greater purple fringed orchid, is a species of orchid, genus Platanthera, occurring from Ontario to Newfoundland, south along the Appalachian Mountains to northeastern Georgia, with an isolated population in Illinois. It is imperiled in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina and presumed extirpated in Ohio.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanthera_grandiflora