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.
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
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanthera_grandiflora