Bog Orchids

Driving through Kootenay National Park in British Columbia we found and photographed a field of Bog Orchids. This one is the Bog Candle, Platanthera dilatata and there were growing with it the Tall Northern Bog Orchis, Platanthera huronensis, as well as a natural hybrid, one of the green Bog Orchids of the western USA and Canada that are very difficult to identify, in part because they hybridize and intergrade with one another (see insets).