Iowa wildflower Wednesday: Putty-root Orchid

Nature nerd Emily Bredthauer took the pictures enclosed below in April and May. (It’s better not to be too specific about the location of rare wildflowers.) On a quintessential rainy April day, I traveled east hoping to see an early woodland wildflower I’d not beheld before: Prairie Trillium (Trillium recurvatum). “Thank you,” I couldn’t help but say quietly out loud…Read More