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Empiricist: JEWELS IN THE MOST UNLIKELY PLACES JEWELS IN THE MOST UNLIKELY PLACES The Slow Empiricist It is not true that orchids are fragile hothouse plants for they occur all over the world from beyond the Arctic Circle south to nearly Antarctica! And if the melting going on there continues they may eventually pop up there. So, if they are so widespread and seemingly hardy why are they rare, threatened and endangered? There are lots of reasons from man’s constant expansion into orchid habitat to extremes in the particular orchids’ natural range with southern species reaching the limit of their ability to survive further north of their range. Weather also plays its part with drought years cutting into survival and reproduction (although orchids often go dormant in dry years to bloom exuberantly in normal or wetter years). Some orchids are fire respondent and also bide their time until a wild fire or controlled burn eliminates the competing flora so they can bring forth a large blooming population. Back to the overarching question if orchids are so widespread and seemingly hardy where are they hiding? Where are these unlikely places where one can find an orchid? Having traveled extensively in the United States and Canada there is one enormous habitat that is sprinkled liberally with many species of orchids. Quite simply it is along the roadsides themselves that many orchids find a home. Spiranthes, ladies-tresses, are particularly happy in that kind of habitat. They like open sunny locations that are mowed to keep down 34
Empiricist: JEWELS IN THE MOST UNLIKELY PLACES competition. Some like to nestle up nearer the hedgerow for some shade or shelter, others like to grow in the damper ditches. 35 Sacoila lanceolata, the leafless beaked orchid growing along a roadside in Levy County, Florida
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