Welcome to the Florida Native Orchids Gallery. This gallery is a labor of love for the orchids native to my area, northern Florida.

Many years ago, as a young teen, I came across a violet in the woods, wondering in ignorance if it was an orchid. A quick look through a wildflower book left me disappointed, but a few pages over and there were illustrations of a few terrestrial orchids (not native to Florida). About a year later, I ran across Carl Luer's book "The Native Orchids of Florida" in a bookstore, which my parents purchased for me as a birthday present.

Armed with the information in this book, I was able to locate several native orchids growing within just a few hundred feet of where I found the violet growing a few years earlier...it was all a matter of knowing when, where, and what to look for. Over the years, as my family took trips to the beach or elsewhere, and as we went driving through the nearby Apalachicola National Forest, we located many more species, noting locations and blooming times. I have watched these colonies over the years, seeing some colonies grow and thrive and other colonies disappearing entirely. The photographs presented on this site are the culmination of all those years of cataloguing these plants.

Many of these photographs are available as high-resolution digital stock photographs, as well as frameable high-resolution art-quality photographic prints. Please inquire via e-mail about these options: prem@premdesign.com

NEW! the 2007 Florida Native Orchid calendars are now available. Click the picture below to get to the calendar information page.
NOTE: a portion of the proceeds from the sale of these calendars will go to the Native Orchids Restoration Project (NORP).

$19.99 plus shipping.

The following orchid photographs are available on this site:
Calopogon barbatus
Calopogon pallidus
Calopogon tuberosus
Cleistes bifaria
Corallorhiza wisteriana
Encyclia tampensis
Epidendrum magnoliae
Habenaria repens
Isotria verticillata
Listera australis
Platanthera blephariglottis v. conspicua
Platanthera chapmanii
Platanthera ciliaris
Platanthera cristata
Platanthera integra
Platanthera nivea
Pogonia ophioglossoides
Sacoila lanceolata
Spiranthes praecox
Spiranthes vernalis
Tipularia discolor

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