Hi Don and all online JBS members, Greetings everyone. Check out pp. 27-28 for the list of specimens seen by Jean Wallace Cameron, The Orchids of Maine, 1951 (reprinted 1976) for some info on distribution. Jean referred to Platanthera hookeri as "very local". I have seen what I thought was this in the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Bradley in a midsuccessional oak stand near Blackman Stream. It was not in flower. Does anyone know how to tell it from P. orbiculata when not flowering? I have never seen large populations of this species in Maine -- where I encounter it there seem to be at most about five plants. Best, Alison At 08:25 AM 10/22/2001 -0400, Cameron, Don S. wrote: >[log in to unmask]