The small whorled pogonia is a rare orchid found only in the Northeastern U.S. There are just about 3,000 in the entire world, most in New England, and conservationists are weighing how to best protect them.
A small whorled pogonia on private land where the wild orchid grows and is being monitored by the Native Plant Trust.
About 100 yards into the woods, Piantedosi stopped. He pointed to a tiny plant, just a few inches tall, with five green leaves and a pale green flower the size of a pinkie fingernail. The secret orchid. There are about 30,000 species of orchids in the world, and about about half of those are threatened, according to Abby Meyer, executive director ofSmall whorled pogonia in flower.
Native Plant Trust CEO, Tim Johnson, watches Michael Piantedosi, director of conservation, as he looks up at the tree canopy which has been thinned to allow more light for the small whorled pogonia to thrive in the woods. "I think we’re really aware of that line. It’s different for every species and every location," he said, but the goal is to keep these orchids wild."We would like for these plants to have management enough so that they can reproduce on their own irrespective of our intervention."
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