Audio postcard: The flowers of Minnesota's old-growth northern forest
![Stemless lady's-slippers, also known as moccasin flowers](https://img.apmcdn.org/c077c3b21848cbdd1111c97afd6bdd9ee9261901/normal/8254d2-20190617-stemless-ladys-slippers.jpg)
Some stemless lady's-slippers, also known as moccasin flowers, are seen in the Lost 40, which is part of the Chippewa National Forest, on Friday, June 14, 2019.
Photo by Kelly Povo
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We occasionally get nature reports from Phyllis Root and Kelly Povo, the authors of "Searching for Minnesota's Native Wildflowers."
Their latest dispatch comes from the Lost 40, a plot of old-growth red and white pines in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota that was never logged due to a surveying error.
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