Buckbean and orchid (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Buckbean and orchid

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Two state-listed plants which persist in northeast Illinois: the bog buckbean, Menyanthes trifoliata, left, and the lesser purple-fringed orchid, Platanthera psycodes, which is critically imperiled in Illinois.
 

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Photos by, from left, Brian Charles, Tucker SP

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