RHH's photos with the keyword: hooded ladies' tresses

These are a few more photos from the northwest quadrant of the lower loop of the main Yellowstone National Park road, this of an orchid, Hooded Ladies' Tresses growing on the side of the Gibbon River. The other photos are of hot springs, Terrace Springs, not far north of the west entrance road and right along the road.

Yellowstone National Park has everything, even orchids. This example of Hooded Ladies' Tresses was photographed around the hot springs of the Fountain Paint Pots area of Yellowstone. It like wet areas and seems to like the warm waters of the hot springs especially. Fountain Paint Pots is an area of thermal activity on the west side of the lower loop of Yellowstone's main road between Gibbon Falls and Norris Junction. We are continuing our tour of Yellowstone and have arrived at the Paint Pots, but some flowers from that area before the Paint Pots themselves. The flowers were photographed at different times of the year and on different trips to Yellowstone.

These orchids, Hooded Ladies' Tresses, Spiranthes romanzoffiana, were photographed along the trails in the Artist's Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park. They are very common in wet areas in the park. On another note, my time on line will be limited the next few weeks since we are moving across the state of Washington to the Spokane area. We'll be busy unpacking and getting our new house ready during that time.

In early August (that's how far behind I am with posting pictures) we made one of our many trips across the North Cascades to the Spokane area. We left early in the morning and as dawn was breaking made our first stop in North Cascades National Park near Diablo Lake Overlook to photographed the Ladies'-tresses there. To our disappointment they were nearly finished, the result of a hot dry summer. Further up the mountains, however, near Rainy Pass, we found more of them in prime condition and stopped to take photos before continuing on our way to eastern Washington. The story of our trip and photos can be found at the link below. The Hooded Ladies'-tresses, Spiranthes romanzoffiana, in one of three species in that genus to be found in the state of Washington, this one very common and the other two very rare. It is a small plant, often under six inches tall and seldom more than a foot tall and flower that vary from off-white to cream. A closer look at the flowers is given below in an older picture. It is one of the last of our native orchids to bloom and loves wet sunny meadows. It gets the name "Ladies'tresses from the braided appearance of the flower spikes.

This is another photo from Lake Elizabeth, this time of one of our native orchids, the Hooded Ladies' Tresses, Spiranthese romanzoffiana. The braided appearance of the flower spikes is the reason for the name "Ladies' Tresses" and these flowers are also distinctly "hooded." The plant flowers late in the summer and there were an abundance of them at Lake Elizabeth this past summer, though I've been told that in other years they are hard to find. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2012/09/c...

This clump of Hooded Ladies' Tresses was photographed in situ at Lake Elizabeth. They bloom late in the summer and like wetter but exposed areas. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2012/09/c...