Patient Flower: The Hidden Lives of North America's Native Lady's Slipper Orchids

A portrait of the most cunning, most patient flowers in North America.Kneel down at a lady's slipper orchid and you are looking at a confidence trick thirty million years in the making. The pouch that stops you in your tracks was never meant for your eyes; it is a machine, tuned over deep time to lure a particular bee into working for free. And beneath that trick lies a deeper one: from its first ...