Overnight trip to near Dayton, Ohio for the rare, Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid — 2018-06-19
Jim
21 June 2018
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On Tuesday morning, June 19, 2018, Walter Ezell and I loaded up a rental car and left Greenville, South Carolina for a special wildflower preserve near Dayton, Ohio where the rare, Platanthera leucophaea or Eastern Prairie Fringed orchid can be found. Historically, this orchid species was considerably more plentiful, but due to habitat degradation, it