A few months ago someone mentioned to me that the plants of Corallorhiza maculata (Striped Coralroot) in their area (idaho) didn't often produce any seed capsules, which is (of course) a cause of concern. Anyhow, to make a long story short, I did a brief study of the ones in my yard and found that only about 2% of flowers produced a capsule, which is very few, especially considering the other species tend to have a capsule set rate of 90% or above (partly due to self-pollination in C. maculata). If anyone has a population of C. striata near them (or thinks they might) and would be willing to help, I would love to collect as much data as possible! Right now I have set up a project on the citizen science website (and app)
iNaturalist so that anyone with a (free) account can contribute. iNat is pretty self-explanatory, but basically it is a place where you can upload photos of wild flora and fauna to be identified and create tons of handy data in the process. Currently the data I am trying to get is the number of flowers (even old dead flowers count, as long as they are from this season) and the number of seedpods. Additional useful info would be stuff like shade/sun info, habitat, plant height, number of inflorescences etc.
here is a site with some useful info on C. striata (and other native orchids):
Corallorhiza striata
(Striped Coral Root): Go Orchids
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Corallorhiza striata capsule set study.
* iNaturalist here is a link to the project on iNaturalist, I haven't gotten very far with it yet though, I will be adding many more observations to it.
Gathering data on Corallorhiza striata
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