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Platanthera ciliaris / Orange Fringed Orchid at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC
Small woodland orchis, also known as club spur orchid, Platanthera clavellata. Pleased to find these blooming in the woods this morning!
Take a walk with me, Part 2. Yet more wonders from my hike this morning: a juvenile American toad (Anaxyrus americanus); false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum racemosum); smooth Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum); round-leaved orchid (Platanthera orbiculata); pink lady’s slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule); longstyle sweetroot (Osmorhiza longistylis), also known as aniseroot; mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), just now coming into bloom; and birch polypore (Fomitopsis betulin).
Orchid field!!
Platanthera leucophaea
due to the number of wide open fens left in the United States and the loss of connectivity between populations along riverways due to dams, diversions, developement, poor water quality, tilling, removal of rich top soil, and fire suppression this fen species has landed it’s self on the federally threatened species list with very few populations left with very few individuals in said populations. (This species is also added to the globally imperalled list due to this as well.) and much like the Northern Monks Hood and Kentucky Yellow Wood Clover, may go extinct within’ our life time.
It is critical for the protection of these species that the land they are located on be preserved to it’s fullest and burned every few years in order to encourage protocorm developement and in-situ populations to thrive. Hopefully, as more people progress into the future of (I might be optimistic saying this) converting their pond full of fertilizer into a wet depression bioswale full of sedges that they can burn each year, and with more people going into ex-situ cryo preservation and tissue culture we might be able to get this species to regain ground, and hopefully save it from it’s theoretical direction twords extinction.
Photographed in Clark Co. OH
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Just a platanthera to practice
White Bog Orchid, Platanthera dilatata, found in a wet mountain meadow in the central Sierra Nevadas, CA
