Western Prairie Fringed Orchid
Platanthera praeclara
only exists in five U.S. states in the Midwest. The Endangered Species
Coalition estimates that there are only 172 populations of this plant,
with merely four with more than 1,000 plants. This is a wetland plant
that grows in “prairie potholes”, indents left by glaciers in the recent
ice age, 20,000 years ago. The main threats to this plant are
development, overgrazing, fires, and global warming.
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