RHH's photos with the keyword: tete jaune cache

Take near Tete Jaune Cache, we took this photo early in the morning and I've posted it for two reasons. I liked the light and the feeling of space given by the photo, and it gives a nice idea of what this area of British Columbia is like. One can go east through the mountains to Edmonton from here or northwest to Prince Geoge.

On our way to Edmonton we had some extra time and asked one of the staff at the Mount Robson Visitors' Center if she knew of any places where we might find wild orchids in bloom. We had asked the right person, and she was able to direct us to an area of where we found these yellow slipper orchids growing by the thousands and spent several hours photographing them and a number of other smaller orchids that grew in the area. Please note that orchids in the wild should NEVER be dug up or any attempt made to move them. Most of them require a soil fungus and very specific conditions to grow and will not grow in a garden if moved. This orchid is an exception and grows easily in most northern gardens, but it, too, should not be dug up since it can be purchased commercially at a reasonable price.

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

In Explore December 4, 2009, #398. This was photographed last summer in the area of Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia.

This is the Yellow Lady's Slipper, Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens. It was photographed near Tete Jaune Cache in British Columbia. Most of the flowers were finished and this one is nearly finished, but the color was still good and the crab spider was an additional attraction. We've been away on day trips - trying to take as much advantage of the summer as possible, thus the lack of posting. Monday I hiked the Yellow Aster Butte Trail - ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/07/yellow-aste... - near Mount Baker with a friend and Thursday my wife and I went "orchid hunting" in the Olympics.

This is one of the green-flowered Platantheras, which I find incredibly hard to distinguish, both because many of the species are similar, but also because they interbreed and are, therefore found in many intermediate forms. Platanthera aquilonis is one of the easier species to distinguish both because its lip is yellowish in color and because of its club-shaped spur. It is also one of the larger-flowered and more attractive species. The individual flowers are less than 1 cm, but the plant, usually around 45 cm, bears many flowers, up to 60 per spike, and puts on a fair show as a result. All the Platantheras have been and by some still are classified as Habenarias, and this species was once known not only as a Habenaria, but as H. hyperborea, now considered to be confined to Greenland. We have not found this species as often as we have the other Platantheras, but when we've found it, it has been locally abundant, and always growing, as is the case with many in the genus, in marshy areas. The plant ranges all across Canada and Alaska and across the northern United States as well and down into California and New Mexico. This plant was photographed near Tete Jaune Cache in British Columbia. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2011/02/n...