Status of Platanthera praeclara Sheviak & Bowles (Western Prairie Fringed Orchid) in the Platte River Valley in Nebraska from Hamilton to Garden Counties

Authors

Tanya E. Bray, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Barbara L. Wilson, Oregon State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1992

Publication Title

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences

Volume

19

First Page

57

Last Page

62

Abstract

During June and July, 1991, a search for western prairie fringed orchid was conducted in the Platte River Valley in central and west-central Nebraska. No orchids were found in the 370 sites surveyed. Factors which may contribute to the scarcity of this orchid in the area surveyed include drought conditions in the previous three years; habitat alteration by draining, ditching, herbicide application, mowing for hay, crop cultivation and planting of non-native species for hay fields; invasion of the area by trees; and the presence of alkaline soils in some areas

Comments

Pubished in the Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XIX: 57-62, 1992. Copyright © 1992 Bray and Wilson.

Recommended Citation

Bray, Tanya E. and Wilson, Barbara L., "Status of Platanthera praeclara Sheviak & Bowles (Western Prairie Fringed Orchid) in the Platte River Valley in Nebraska from Hamilton to Garden Counties" (1992). Biology Faculty Publications. 51.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/biofacpub/51