Orchids Of Indiana

All 43 of the orchids now growing in Indiana are represented in this handsome volume of detailed descriptions, range maps, and color photographs, appealing to naturalists and orchid lovers everywhere.

"It is hard to keep from over-praising this thoughtful... beautifully illustrated work." --Indiana Audubon Quarterly Indiana University Press Indiana University Press

Orchids enchant us as few other plants do, yet most people know surprisingly little about what may be the largest plant family on earth. A case in point: how many would have guessed that only three species of orchids occur naturally in Hawaii, while Indiana has forty-three? In this handsome and comprehensive volume, Michael Homoya gives us an inside look at Indiana s wild orchids, detailing their distinguishing characteristics, habitat preferences, and state and continental ranges. With over 100 color plates and scientific illustrations complementing the text and depicting each orchid as it occurs in Indiana s landscape, Orchids of Indiana will delight naturalists and orchid lovers everywhere.

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Michael A. Homoya has served as botanist/plant ecologist for the Division of Nature Preserves, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, since 1982. He is author of Wildflowers and Ferns of Indiana Forests (IUP, 2011).

Foreword

Preface51

Acknowledgments

Introduction

History of Indiana Orchidology

Orchid Morphology and Reproduction

Orchid Ecology and Distribution

Indiana as Orchid Habitat

Finding Orchids

Orchid Conservation

Guide to the Species Accounts

Key to Indiana Orchid Genera

Species Accounts

Aplectrum hyemale

Arethusa bulbosa

Calopogon tuberosus

Coeloglossum viride

Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza odontorhiza

Corallorhiza trifida

Corallorhiza wisteriana

Cypripedium acaule

Cypripedium calceolus var. parviflorum

Cypripedium caldeolus var. pubescens

Cypripedium X andrewsii

Cypripedium canidium

Cypripedium reginae

Epipactis helleborine

Galearis spectabilis