One of the rarest orchids east of the Mississippi, the small-whorled pogonia, emerges from a long dormancy when there is an abundance of specific fungi in the soil. Melissa McCormick Orchids can hide.

“It’s Vermont’s equivalent of rediscovering the ivory-billed woodpecker.” Considered a globally rare orchid, the small whorled pogonia is typically found across the eastern United States and Ontario, ...

A federally threatened species of orchid that hasn't been confirmed in Vermont since 1902 has been found, the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife said. Department botanists confirmed that a ...

The small whorled pogonia, a federally threatened species of orchid, has been rediscovered in Vermont – 120 years after the plant was last spotted in the state. The plant was last documented in ...

A native species of sunflower, called the giant whorled sunflower, is only known to exist in four locations in the Southeast United States. In the last four years a graduate student has conducted a ...

Michael Piantedosi pulled his car onto the shoulder of a two-lane highway, and parked next to a patch of woods that looked utterly ordinary — another forest like so many others lining the roads of ...