In the Company of Plants and Rocks

Answer: Capsules filled with seeds! (Striped Coralroot, Awinch1001 ) Welcome back to the The Monthly Orchid , a series about South Dakota...

Lake Lahontan (pale gray) is "a large lake which flooded a number of the valleys of northwestern Nevada at a very recent geological dat...

I walked right by these Coralroots! Fortunately I returned the same way and saw them. Welcome to the The Monthly Orchid , a series of blog p...

The pouch-like lips of Fairy Slippers ( Calypso bulbosa ) are exquisite with their purple patterns and bright yellow hairs. No wonder fairie...

Camping on a different kind of beach. Beachcombing through tufa, not sand. Last fall, on my way home from California, I drove through northw...