A photographic record of the beautiful and often rare native orchids that can be found in our area.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Long-spurred Piperia near Pend Oreille
While at a youth camp near Pend Oreille on the Washington Idaho border, I hiked into the hills back of the camp and found a number of Long-spurred Piperia (Platanthera elongata) in bloom. This rather common species has recently been renamed - it was Piperia elongata, but I prefer the older name since the Piperias are very distinctive.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Four Orchids in Sherman Pass
Traveling to eastern Washington, I did some hiking in the area of Sherman Pass in Colville National Forest. I was looking for the Northern Twayblade, Neottia borealis, a plant I had seen many times in the Canadian Rockies and never here in Washington. Using GPS coordinates given me by a friend, I found it at the peak of its bloom right along the trail, about a dozen plants and growing with it, the Early Coralroot, Corallorhiza trifida, though that was very nearly finished blooming. Later, continuing my trip, I stopped along the road to photograph a large colony of the Stream Orchid, Epipactis gigantea, and some Sierra Rein Orchis, Platanthera dilatata var. leucostachys, growing with them. The star of the show, though, was the Listera, a first for me in Washington.
Northern Twayblade
Neottia borealis
Early Coralroot
Corallorhiza trifida
Stream Orchid
Epipactis gigantea
Sierra Rein Orchis
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