ANTSPlantation
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I will post my findings on wild/native orchids of the Rocky Mountains!
Wild orchids of the Rockies, ANTS’s wild orchid expedition
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ANTSPlantation
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Orchid species number 1
Calypso bulbosa (fairy slipper orchid) - Canmore Alberta
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I found these in moss beds in a high altitude coniferous forest, very beautiful species and very impressive. Population is over a thousand plants!
Calypso bulbosa (fairy slipper orchid) - Canmore Alberta
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I found these in moss beds in a high altitude coniferous forest, very beautiful species and very impressive. Population is over a thousand plants!
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Orchid number 2
amerorchis rotundifolia (Small Round-Leaved orchid)- Canmore Alberta
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The most beautiful orchid I’ve ever found! Found on a floating moss bed in the middle of a stream. This was a solitary plant which means that there is only one plant around the area, must protect this!
amerorchis rotundifolia (Small Round-Leaved orchid)- Canmore Alberta
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The most beautiful orchid I’ve ever found! Found on a floating moss bed in the middle of a stream. This was a solitary plant which means that there is only one plant around the area, must protect this!
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Orchid number 3
Cypripedium passerinum (Sparrow’s-egg lady’s slipper orchid) - Canmore Alberta
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Very cute looking, looks nice and juicy
. It almost seems like it luminates under the sunlight. Also a solitary plant growing just by itself, found near a calcarious fen.
Cypripedium passerinum (Sparrow’s-egg lady’s slipper orchid) - Canmore Alberta
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Very cute looking, looks nice and juicy
. It almost seems like it luminates under the sunlight. Also a solitary plant growing just by itself, found near a calcarious fen.
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Orchid number 4
Platanthera hyperborea (northern green bog orchid) - Canmore Alberta
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Not as impressive as the other ones, fairly common, cool find!
Platanthera hyperborea (northern green bog orchid) - Canmore Alberta
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Not as impressive as the other ones, fairly common, cool find!
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ANTSPlantation
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So far my favorite find was the small round-leaved orchid, absolutely stunning flowers, definitely a beauty of the mountains.
Smilodonichthys
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One of my favorite orchids! I'm pretty sure the most recent accepted binominal for what had been Amerorchis rotundifolia has been changed to Galearis rotundifolia. I hate trying to keep up with all the name changes but at least there is usually an interesting reason behind it. I hope to plan a trip to the mainland to see it and Epipactis gigantea one day soon. So many plants and so little time.
Amazing series. Thanks for sharing your findings. Really makes me want to get back to the rockies.
You might be interested in this phantom orchid(Cephalanthera austiniae) that I had the chance to see this spring. Its a non-photosynthetic myco-heterotroph!
funkmaster
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Awesome thread @ANTSPlantation always awesome to see our native orchids!
@Smilodonichthys beautiful find, myco-heterotrophs are mind blowing!
@Smilodonichthys beautiful find, myco-heterotrophs are mind blowing!
ANTSPlantation
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This is technically not the rockies anymore, I was helping the mushroom society look for some edible mushrooms in a conservation site in Red Deer AB, I stumbled across the western spotted coralroot orchid, Corallorhiza maculata var. occidentalis. They were found growing in a damp deciduous forest.
