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.wisc.edu/botany/Orchids/
. 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.
