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This time of year there's a mixture of wildflowers to see, from dry-season orchids still clinging on to spring...
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
Famous for the endangered and wildly popular ghost orchid [Dendrophylax lindenii (Lindl.) Benth. ex Rolfe ], Fakahatchee Strand is a part of the historic Everglades system. Water from as far away as eastern Lee County flows into the strand and eventually to the Ten Thousand Islands and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Orchid species that prevail in the dry season are still around... while the summer orchids are quickly approaching.
"You'll start to see the ghost orchid here by July."
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Loop Road: Big Cypress National Preserve
"North of Loop Road there are grass-pinks [Calopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus], which are an orchid species. They're around while it's still dry," said Bob DeGross with Big Cypress National Preserve.
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The grass-pink is a... purple, white and yellow orchid that blooms in April and May"
source : http://www.bonitanews.com/news/2006/may/23/wildflower_season/?around_swfla
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regards,
VB
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