PETERSBURG (CBSMiami/AP) – One of the world's rarest flowers, the ghost orchid, is facing threats in Florida from poaching, loss of habitat and climate change and needs federal protection, ...

This 12,000-acre Florida state park near Copeland is one of the state’s most surprising wilderness areas, filled with rare orchids, towering cypress forests, and incredible wildlife.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This coin orchid or clamshell orchid is growing in Fakahatchee Strand State Park, the largest state park in Florida, near the ...

Along South Florida’s remote and rugged Everglades coast, the rare and flamboyant Cape Sable orchid has managed to survive poaching, repeated lashings by hurricanes and even a parasitic fly that ...

A keen-nosed K-9 in Florida helped wildlife authorities uncover a theft attempt of rare and endangered plants from a state park. On Facebook, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orchids are on display at the newest location of Flora & More in Houston, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. Flora & More is a members-only ...

Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit because they want the federal government to list a rare orchid, found mainly in Florida, as an endangered species. Ghost orchids grow in just a few places in ...

The dollar orchid (Prosthechea boothiana) is among the native species soon to be planted in South Florida trees. Researchers at a South Florida botanic garden want to return the state's orchids to ...

Researchers have pinpointed the biggest threats to the only population of rare, endangered mule ear orchids in the U.S. The Florida International University (FIU) orchid research team found powerful ...

FLORIDA PANTHER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE -- Larry Richardson was talking away, quoting philosophers and Senegalese poets, but something in the wilderness distracted him. He stopped in mid-sentence and ...

Ghost orchids grow in just a few places in Florida and Cuba. There are only about 1,500 left in Florida, and they are under threat from habitat loss and poachers. Now they are also the subject of a ...

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