I spent Saturday August 21, 2010 in Kentucky with Dan Boone, and Jim Decker looking for several species of rare plants that I had never seen before and was looking forward to seeing them and photographing them. The first species was the native New York Ironweed which is extinct in Ohio and we were successful at finding it as well and many other species too. Next we headed to another location were there was a natural seep and found the rare White-fringeless Orchid also known as Monkey-face Orchid.
It did not look like a Monkey’s face to me but it was a very cool orchid just the same. While looking at and photographing the Orchid I had the pleasure of meeting another photographer from Kentucky and a good friend of Dan’s, Richard Cassel.He was a very funny character and we all had a good time looking at various other plants as well. Once we were done there we went looking for the Appalachian rosinweed which was along some back road about one hour away from the orchid and again we were successful. This plant is only known from the Appalachian region of Kentucky and Tennessee. We spent about an hour at that location enjoying and photographing this plant before heading back home.
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