Pollinating Rare Wild Orchids By Hand Pays Off – Weekly News

Effort to Aid one of Wisconsin’s 48 Orchid Species Bears Fruit

An eastern prairie white fringed orchid, one of the rarest of Wisconsin’s 48 orchids.Photo credit: Rich Staffen

Contact(s): Kevin Doyle, Conservation Biologist, 608-416-3377
December 17, 2019

MADISON, Wis. – A painstaking effort by state conservation biologists to pollinate Wisconsin’s rarest wild orchids by hand has paid…