Not many people know that orchids grow in
Wisconsin. I didn't know about Wisconsin orchids until my former
grad student, Celia ("Ce") E. Wills, R.N., Ph.D., taught me how to find
them. Here's a picture of Ce getting ready to photograph a
rattlesnake plaintain orchid that we found in the forest in Marinette
County Wisconsin.
The orchilds here are all found in Wisconsin.
For further information on orchids, you can visit the website of the
UW-Madison Herbarium at
http://www.botany.wisc.edu/Orchids/Orchids_of_Wisconsin.html
. Because you can get all the scientific info at the Herbarium
website, I'm skipping the Latin names here.
Wild orchids are relatively rare, and are also
sensitive to disturbance. So be careful not to step on them,
and don't even think of digging them up--they probably won't grow in
your flower garden anyway.
