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 ...

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 ...

A rare orchid has been found for the first time in 120 years, according to officials. The small whorled pogonia was found by botanists in Vermont last month, according to a Wednesday Facebook post ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — 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 ...

Get Vermont news sent to your inbox. Daily Digger is everything you need to know to start your day, delivered Monday-Saturday morning. A small whorled pogonia blooms on Winooski Valley Park District ...

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.

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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Friday the availability of the draft recovery plan for the endangered whorled sunflower, providing an opportunity for the public to review and comment ...