Purdon Conservation Area
Lanark Highlands, Canada
The Purdon Conservation Area in the municipality of Lanark Highlands, Lanark County, in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Located near the community of Lanark, it is operated by the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority. The Purdon Conservation Area supports Canada's largest native colony of showy lady s
lipper orchids, some 16,000 plants. A smaller grouping of the orchids was discovered in the 1930s by Joe Purdon, after whom the conservation area is named, and who grew it to its larger size. It is open to the public from Victoria Day to Thanksgiving every year.
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- showy lady slipper orchids trail monumenti · 0.4 km away
- Silver Lake Provincial Park monumenti · 18 km away