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

A very common species in the Pacific Northwest, the Green Bog Orchis, Platanthera huronensis , is also rather uninspiring.  It is not alw...

This is another species reputed to grow in Washington but which we have not seen in the state and which, if it grows there, must be very ...

This species is reputed to grow in Washington, in the northern counties east of the Cascades, but it is at the southern limit of its rang...

Platanthera stricta , the Slender Bog Orchis, is probably the most common orchid species in the Pacific Northwest and also the least at...

One of our ferry stops on the way to Alaska was in Juneau where we were delayed for over eight hours.  We used the time to hike the Spaul...

We made a brief stop recently in north-central Washington to see a patch of the Columbia Hybrid Lady's Slippers, Cypripedium x colu...