The last week of June is the best time to find Platanthera psycodes or Small Purple Fringed orchid along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, especially near Mt. Mitchell State Park. It’s become an annual event for us to head up that way to catch them at their peak. I usually like to go

What began as a short day trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina ended 13 hours later with 6 orchids and a few other wildflowers under my belt. The summer solstice lived up to its hot reputation, even in the mountains. The up-side was that I had the use of more daylight than

Mid-June is the time of the year to see Neottia (Listera) smallii or Appalachian Twayblade orchid in bloom in our area. The best place that I know to find them is in the Pisgah National Forest near Brevard, North Carolina. I put Listera in parentheses because all of the North American species that were formerly

In previous blog reports, I’ve written about a “Pink” Day and maybe a “Blue” Day, but this was definitely a “White” Day. White wildflowers were abundant during this trip, so that’s what I will show you. Recently, my good friends from Pennsylvania, Bob Sprague and Amy Levengood, contacted me about an orchid species I had

On May 31, 2016, I was privileged to visit a dear friend, Eleanor Dietrich, in Tallahassee, Florida. She and another Florida friend, Floyd Griffith, had promised that they would let me know when Calopogon multiflorus or Manyflowered Grass-pink orchid was in bloom in the Apalachicola National Forest in the Florida panhandle. It’s about a 7-hour