Native Orchids of the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies (and Elsewhere)

Epipactis gigantea is our only native Epipactis , though Epipactis helleborine is also quite common in our area, especially at lower el...

Platanthera aquilonis , the Northern Green Bog Orchis, is another of the hard-to-identify green Platantheras .  Indeed, because the Pla...

We have eight species of Platanthera in our area (there are a couple more in Alaska).  Many of them are rather unimpressive, but this sp...