Get Your Botany On!

The Photo Quest Continues... It was my good fortune this past summer to add two additional native orchid species to my list of Indiana...

Rare and local, this remarkable plant can still be found in quality swamp forests and open, wet meadows. It is now called Platanthera psycod...

... and you're all invited! On Thursday morning, on a tip from Derek Nimetz of Indiana Department of Natural Resources - Division of Nat...

To continue with the Platanthera theme, I had a real treat on Saturday to get to see Orange Fringed Orchid blooming in southern Jasper Count...

This tall and stately orchid is occasional in high-quality swamp forests behind the Indiana Dunes. It tends to grow in wet, mucky ground whe...

Yesterday, on my property in North Liberty, St. Joseph County, Indiana, I found a single plant of Platanthera lacera in bloom. For more info...

While in a woods in Northern LaPorte County, Indiana yesterday, I found three different orchids in the genus Platanthera (aka Habenaria). Th...

I'll take a stab at this game. This is a photo of Platanthera leucophaea , the eastern prairie fringed orchid, one of the rarest plants ...