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 ...

More than 20,000 species of orchids have been described, and more species are being discovered each year. Most orchids are tropical epiphytes, or plants growing on other plants. Temperate orchids are ...

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 ...