RHH's photos with the keyword: rotundifolia

These Harebells were photographed along the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park, Montana.

Photographed in the meadows along the Castle Creek Road in the Colorado Rockies west of Aspen.

Hiking in Colorado last summer was a wildflower extravaganza. I have never seen so many wildflowers nor so many different kinds. These Harebells were photographed along the Maroon Lake Loop.

This is a wild orchid that can carpet the ground in areas where it is found. Once known as Amerorchis, it is now classified as Galeraris, the Small Round-leaf Orchid. These and the flowers in the insets were photographed in Kootenay National Park in British Columbia on 2014 trip there.

This is the whole flowering plant of the Small Round-leaf Orchid. It is about six inches (15 cm) tall and has 4-12 flowers, often growing in patches of hundreds of plants.

At about six kilometers in on our backpacking trip to Berg Lake we stopped along the shore of Kinney Lake at one of our favorite spots for native orchids. They were past their prime but we photographed six different species there including this Small Round-leaf Orchid, Galearis rotundifolia, growing side-by-side with a flower of Mountain Avens, Dryas drummondii. And, since the Mountain Avens is named drummondi, I thought I'd dedicate the photo to Larry Drummond.

Formerly named Amerorchis rotundifolia, this is now Galearis rotundifolia, the Small Round-leaved Orchid. We found this in abundance at one of the sites we visited in Kootenay National Park and found three different varieties. This is variety immaculata with an unspotted lip.

Formerly named Amerorchis rotundifolia, this is now Galearis rotundifolia, the Small Round-leaved Orchid. We found this in abundance at one of the sites we visited in Kootenay National Park and found three different varieties. This is variety lineata with lines or blotches of color on the lip.

Formerly named Amerorchis rotundifolia, this is now Galearis rotundifolia, the Small Round-leaved Orchid. We found this in abundance at one of the sites we visited in Kootenay National Park and found three different varieties. This is the ordinary variety with the spots on the lip.

Formerly named Amerorchis rotundifolia, this is now Galearis rotundifolia, the Small Round-leaved Orchid. We found this in abundance at one of the sites we visited in Kootenay National Park and found three different varieties, all shown in the inset photos. This is the ordinary variety with the spots on the lip.

This was another first for me on our trip to Edmonton last summer. While out orchid hunting with the friend mentioned in the previous post, I was also shown this unusual form of a common orchid by him. This is the Small Round-leaf Orchis but a rare form with a striped rather than a spotted lip, Amerorchis rotundifolia fma. lineata. The ordinary form, which grows in abundance in British Columbia and Alberta, is shown below. This is the orchid that is closely related, too, to the European genus, Orchis, the only North American species so closely related to that genus.

One more picture for Halloween, this one also from the floating bog where the previous pictures were taken. This, however, is a native carnviorous plant, Drosera rotundifolia, the Round-leaf Sundew. It is a very tiny plant as is evident from the moss in which it is growing, but it does catch insects. The tiny drops of liquid are not water but a sticky substance in which insects are trapped and then digested by the plant.

This is Amerorchis rotundifolia, the Small Round-leaf Orchis, not found in Washington but very common in British Columbia. These were photographed near Tete Jaune Cache but were well past their peak. We would see them again in Alberta in much better condition, but I thought I'd post these anyway. The species is only about six inches tall and is closely related to the European genus, Orchis, the only American species that is so closely related.

In Explore July 18, 2009, #200. Photographed near Tete Jaune Cache, but we found these growing in many different locations.

In Explore July 25, 2011, #353. Amerorchis rotundifolia, the Small Round-leaf Orchis, does not grow in Washington State. This plant was photographed in Mount Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia where it grows by the thousands. In the place where this plant was photographed it was impossible to take a step without crushing some of the plants. The photo was taken early in the morning when the flowers were covered with dew or rain from the night before. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2011/07/a...

In Explore July 29, 2011, #456. Had to post just one more picture of this lovely little orchid, photographed near Kinney Lake on the Berg Lake Trail in Mount Robson Provincial Park. This charming species is more closely related to European orchids than to most North American native orchids. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2011/07/a...

In Explore August 24, 2011, #451. This is the Common Harebell, also known as the Scotch Bluebell, found around the world (circumboreal, as the experts say). This was photographed earlier this summer and early in the morning in Mount Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia along the Berg Lake Trail. We were traveling to Edmonton to see family and spent a day in Robson and in Jasper National Park. I hiked the Berg Lake trail very early in the morning while my wife slept in the car with a headache. Later we drove the Maligne Lake Road in Jasper together. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2011/08/canadian-ro...

Campanula rotundifolia grows in temperate regions worldwide and is known by different names. This was photographed near Gargett Mine in the Mount Baker Wilderness. " With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten’d not thy breath. -Shakespeare ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/10/hiking-in-t... ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/10/hiking-in-t...