I was able to photograph a number of Calypso, also called fairy slipper orchids, nestled in the woods not far from the Buffalo Cabin Trail in Silverthorne. Their small, bright pink/purple blooms are ...

Somewhere in the hills of Mendocino County, way off the grid, a plant propagator checks the rows of flasks in the 40-year-old trailer that serves as her lab. No, it's not what you think. Although ...

Description: Flower is about 1 1/4 inches long with three pink sepals and two pink upper petals that spread upward and forward. Lip petal has a white spoonlike tip with reddish-purple spots and a ...

- rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf ...

One of the most pleasant surprises I have enjoyed during my spring ramblings in the mountain woods of western and central Montana is the bright pink splash of color of the calypso orchid. Perhaps it ...