Eastern Prairie White Fringed Orchid (IMAGE)

University of Missouri-Columbia

Eastern Prairie White Fringed Orchid

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Emily Puckett, who recently received her doctorate in the Division of Biological Sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science, found that certain species, like this Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid, may wait as much as a decade or more to be listed as endangered.

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Joshua Mayer, Wikimedia Commons

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