Walking through thick shrubs of privet with his eyes trained to the ground, Michael Bowles drops suddenly at a patch of spindly green tubes.
"Tipularia discolor," Bowles announces the scientific name as he fingers the delicate plant. "It's a native orchid, and this grouping of about 3 square feet? It's between 30 and 40 years old."
The cranefly orchid won't bloom until summer. By then, Bowles or other volunteers in Chamblee will have rescued it from one of the PATH Foundation's latest bike trails.
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