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Wild Orchids Across North America : A title: Botanical Travelogue author: Keenan, Philip E. publisher: Timber Press, Inc. isbn10 | asin: 0881924520 print isbn13: 9780881924527 ebook isbn13: 9780585339993 language: English Orchids--United States, Orchids--Canada, Eastern, Orchids--United States--Pictorial works, Orchids--Canada, Eastern--Pictorial subject works, United States--Description and travel, Canada, Eastern--Description and travel, Keenan, Philip E.--Journeys--United State publication date: 1998 lcc: QK495.O64K397 1998eb ddc: 584/.4/0973022 Orchids--United States, Orchids--Canada, Eastern, Orchids--United States--Pictorial works, Orchids--Canada, Eastern--Pictorial subject: works, United States--Description and travel, Canada, Eastern--Description and travel, Keenan, Philip E.--Journeys--United State Page 1 Wild Orchids Across North America Page 2 Cypripedium acaule, large clump, New Hampshire. Page 3 Wild Orchids Across North America A Botanical Travelogue Text and photographs by Philip E. Keenan Page 4 Copyright © 1998 by Timber Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Timber Press, Inc. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A. Printed in Singapore Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Keenan, Philip E. Wild orchids across North America: a botanical travelogue / text and photographs by Philip E. Keenan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-88192-452-0 1. OrchidsUnited States. 2. OrchidsCanada, Eastern. 3. Orchids United StatesPictorial works. 4. OrchidsCanada, EasternPictorial works. 5. United StatesDescription and travel. 4. Canada, Eastern Description and travel. 7. Keenan, Philip E.JourneysUnited States. 8. Keenan, Philip E.JourneysCanada, Eastern. I. Title QK495.064K397 1998 97-43424 584'.4'0973022dc21 CIP Page 5 CONTENTS Preface 7 Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 11 Alaska Chapter 1 19 Kodiak Island and the Palomino Lady's-slipper Chapter 2 29 The Purple Spotted Lady's-slipper in Alaska Chapter 3 36 Eklutna Lake and Matanuska River Valley Orchids Chapter 4 41 North America's Tiniest Orchid Canada Chapter 5 47 Arethusas in the Maritimes and Newfoundland Chapter 6 54 Orchids and Gannets on Bonaventure Island, Québec Chapter 7 59 On the Road to Hudson Bay for the Timmins Orchid Chapter 8 63 Sparrow's-egg Lady's-slipper on Lake Superior, Ontario Chapter 9 70 The Garden of Eden on Flowerpot Island, Ontario Chapter 10 78 The Prairie Fringed-orchid in Easternmost Ontario New England Chapter 11 87 A Modern-Day Thoreau and the American Orchis in Maine Chapter 12 93 Calopogon and Rose Pogonia in Maine and New Hampshire Chapter 13 100 Calypso in Vermont Chapter 14 105 The Small Whorled Pogonia in Maine and New Hampshire Chapter 15 109 The Large Whorled Pogonia in Massachusetts Chapter 16 113 The Pink Lady's-slipper in New Hampshire Chapter 17 118 Ram's-head in Vermont Chapter 18 127 The Queen Lady's-slipper in Vermont Chapter 19 134 Purple and Green Fringed-orchids in Maine and New Hampshire Page 6 Chapter 20 140 The Pad-leaf Orchids in the White Mountains of Maine Chapter 21 145 The Tall Leafy Northern Orchids Chapter 22 150 Three-birds at Squam Lake, New Hampshire Mid-Atlantic & Midwestern States Chapter 23 159 The White Lady's-slipper on the Shores of Lake Erie, Ohio Chapter 24 163 The Appalachian Twayblade in Pennsylvania Chapter 25 166 The Pine Barrens of New Jersey Chapter 26 170 A New Fringed-orchid on Long Island, New York Southeastern States Chapter 27 179 The Magnificent Rosebud in North Carolina Chapter 28 185 The Flame Orchis in Kentucky and Connecticut Western States Chapter 29 195 Three California Ladies Chapter 30 207

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Appealing to conservationists, travelers, orchid lovers, and naturalists alike, the author takes his readers on an incredible journey to pursue the 145 temperate American orchid species in their native habitats. This chatty account of his field trips in Canada and the U.S. is intended both to docume
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