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:
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