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Please, never pick or attempt to transplant 
Orchids (or any other) wild plant. 

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Many Orchids are endangered.
Orchid habitat is very specialized.
Orchid pollination is very specialized.
Orchid germination is very specialized.
Admire them in the wild and let them live.

Also see Corallorhiza maculata, Calypso bulbosa, Epipactis gigantea, and Cypripedium calceolus, and White Orchids

 

Synonyms: Limnorchis hyperborea, Habenaria hyperborea.  Platanthera aquilonis. (Bog Orchid)
Orchidaceae (Orchid Family)

Blooming information withheld to protect the Orchids.

This Orchid and the next are very similar, but can be distinguished from each other by the size of the spur at the back of each flower: in the species pictured at left the spur is about the length of the flower lip; in the next species, the spur is much shorter than the lip.

This species is often identified as either Limnorchis hyperborea or Habenaria hyperborea, but Orchid authority Charles Sheviak indicates that the hyperborea species is found only in Greenland and Iceland.  Sheviak renamed this species in 1999.  "Platanthera", Greek for “wide anthers”, refers to the flower's broad anthers. "Aquilnois" meaning “of the north” refers to its range.

 

Synonyms: Limnorchis hyperborea, Habenaria hyperborea.  Platanthera aquilonis. (Bog Orchid)
Orchidaceae (Orchid Family)

Synonyms: Limnorchis stricta, Limnorchis saccata, Habenaria saccata.  Platanthera stricta. (Bog Orchid)
Orchidaceae (Orchid Family)

Blooming information withheld to protect the Orchids.

It is uncommon to immediately see Bog Orchids as one would immediately see a flower such as Delphinium.  But stop at mountain bogs and streamsides during June and July and look carefully.  Often a Bog Orchid will materialize.  And where there is one there are almost always more.  The tiny green/white flowers whorl around the twisted, stout flower stalk that arises from large, often vertical basal leaves. 

Carl Willdenow assigned the genus name Habenaria (probably in the very late 1700s).  Edward Greene named the species Habenaria saccata in 1895 from a specimen collected by a Mrs. Austin along Lassen Creek in California in 1894.

The Limnorchis genus name apparently originated with Per Axel Rydberg in 1901 and the genus name Platanthera, the name now accepted by the Flora of North America, the USDA Plant Database, and the Synthesis of the North American Flora, dates to John Lindley's 1835 Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants.

"Limnorchis" is from the Greek, "limnaios", "of a bog".  "Stricta" is Latin for "drawn together or tight" and probably refers to the tight braiding of the flower stalk.  "Platanthera' is Greek for "broad" (or "flattened") "flower".

Synonyms: Limnorchis stricta, Limnorchis saccata, Habenaria saccata.  Platanthera stricta. (Bog Orchid)
Orchidaceae (Orchid Family)

Looking so much like an Orchid flower, the Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) waits.

Synonym: Limnorchis stricta  Limnorchis saccata, Habenaria saccata.  Platanthera stricta.  (Bog Orchid)
Orchidaceae (Orchid Family)

And is rewarded by a bee meal.

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