RHH's photos with the keyword: goat mountain

Driving north to our campsite at Paint Gap Hills we stopped frequently along the road for photos. This is Goat Mountain in the southwest part of Big Bend National Park.

It's a bit confusing but we have both the Western Spotted Coralroot and the Western Coralroot here. This is the Western Coralroot or Merten's Coralroot, Corallorhiza mertensiana, another mycoheterotrophic plant, without chlorophyll and without leaves. It was photographed at Goat Mountain in the North Cascades while hiking there with friends from Germany whom I took on an extended orchid hunting tour.

This is the pale form of the Western Coralroot photographed on a recent hike up Goat Mountain in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. I had gone to see another Coralroot, Corallorhiza trifida, the Early Coralroot, but knew that these were blooming near the beginning of the trail at a lower elevation and stopped to photograph them also. Note: we are still traveling and hiking today so my commenting will be delayed. Eleven states and 6000 miles in the past three weeks.