I would love to try this.... Let me know if anything is equal off my list....

The USDA plant database pulls up the following records for orchids native to NJ: Aplectrum hyemale Arethusa bulbosa Calopogon tuberosus Cleistes divaricata Corallorhiza maculata Corallorhiza odontorhiza Corallorhiza trifida Corallorhiza wisteriana Cypripedium acaule Cypripedium candidum Cypripedium parviflorum Cypripedium reginae Dactylorhiza viridis Epipactis helleborine Galearis spectabilis Goodyera pubescens Goodyera tesselata Isotria medeoloides Isotria verticillata Liparis liliifolia Liparis loeselii Listera australis Listera cordata Listera smallii Malaxis bayardii Malaxis brachypoda Malaxis unifolia Platanthera aquilonis Platanthera �bicolor Platanthera blephariglottis Platanthera �canbyi Platanthera �channellii Platanthera ciliaris Platanthera clavellata Platanthera cristata Platanthera flava Platanthera grandiflora Platanthera hookeri Platanthera huronensis Platanthera integra Platanthera lacera Platanthera nivea Platanthera orbiculata Platanthera peramoena Platanthera psycodes Pogonia ophioglossoides Spiranthes cernua Spiranthes lacera Spiranthes laciniata Spiranthes lucida Spiranthes ochroleuca Spiranthes odorata Spiranthes tuberosa Spiranthes vernalis Tipularia discolor Triphora trianthophora

Great pics. Here in my new home I have one pink lady slipper and half a dozen single leaf native orchids called adders mouth. Not very showy but unusual. It was years before I knew what they were but I also have the dwarf native pawpaw.

Craig, In NC it is not illegal to dig up/kill any plant on private property, only on state/US owned land, such as where highways will be located, etc. You can put Round-Up on your entire area, regardless of what endangered plants are there. (With critters, it is a different matter.) Anyway, pink lady slippers WILL transplant if the appropriate care is given when digging, i.e., don't cut the roots at all! New studies seem to indicate that the fungus they need is mostly for germination, not continuing growth. I wish what you stated (the illegality of digging them) were true here. Two years ago on the side of the road someone was selling POTS of pink lady slippers for Mother's Day!! I am sure they did not observe appropriate digging methods. It is so sad to see them that way. In our rescues, we move as many as we can. I have successfully transplanted quite a few that were in a proposed housing development. Most survived, going on eight years. It is worth the chance as they certainly cannot survive with houses sitting on top! BTW, tissue culture is making many of the orchids available commercially, but I don't have the big bucks to buy them. C.reginae and C. paviflorum have been available for many years, and now I am seeing ads for hybrids.