The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the plant under its Endangered Species Act earlier this year, a potential addition to its state protected status. Anyone can view a sampling of ...

NAPLES — The poachers weren’t intimidated by heat, lightning, mosquitos, venomous snakes, alligators or losing their way in the South Florida swamps. They were there to steal the ghost orchid, a plant ...

Owen spoke of the strand and its ghost orchids with fascination, his sentences rapid and pitched high in excitement: This was a man who utterly loved his job. Though the ghost orchid’s bloom is an ...

NAPLES, Fla. – The poachers weren’t intimidated by heat, lightning, mosquitos, venomous snakes, alligators or losing their way in the south Florida swamps. They were there to steal the ghost orchid, a ...