{"id":3783,"date":"2009-07-30T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/a-good-year-for-field-botanists\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:57:55","slug":"a-good-year-for-field-botanists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2009\/07\/30\/a-good-year-for-field-botanists\/","title":{"rendered":"A good year for field botanists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Anderson, Joe Stevens, and Jessica Parker recorded the first known occurrence of the giant hellborine orchid (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Epipactis gigantea<\/span>) from southeast Colorado, in Las Animas County. This is the first record of this species anywhere on the plains of Colorado &#8211; the next nearest occurrence is in Chaffee County, well over 100 miles away! This tall perennial orchid grows from creeping rhizomes, and requires a constant source of water at its roots. The tall stems with reddish flowers in the leaf axils make this species one of Colorado&#8217;s most distinctive orchids.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7173\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Epigig_SECO.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"257\" alt=\"Epipactis gigantea\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Epigig_SECO.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Epigig_SECO-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Epipactis gigantea<\/span> in southeastern Colorado<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>While CNHP staff were documenting the orchid in southeastern Colorado, our friend and fellow botany enthusiast Annette Miller was re-discovering a small population of the plant in the opposite corner of the state, while on a raft trip through Dinosaur National Monument.  Sue Ellen Campbell took this photo of the Moffat county occurrence:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7174\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Epipactis1_DINO_Campbell.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Epipactis gigantea\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Epipactis1_DINO_Campbell.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Epipactis1_DINO_Campbell-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Epipactis gigantea<\/span> in northwestern Colorado <br \/>\n(photo by Sue Ellen Campbell)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Anderson, Joe Stevens, and Jessica Parker recorded the first known occurrence of the giant hellborine orchid (Epipactis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-botany","8":"entry","9":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}