RHH's photos with the keyword: green bog orchid

This, the Green Bog Orchid, was photographed in the area of Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Alberta. It is one of the difficult-to-identify and small-flowered green orchids that are common in the Northwest. One of the insets shows the whole plant and the others show some closely related Bog orchids.

These are more of the orchids we found while traveling through the Canadian Rockies in 2014. This is the Green Bog Orchid, Platanthera huronensis, one of the rather insignificant small-flowered green orchids of which the Pacific Northwest has more than its share. Many of them are difficult to tell apart and some of them interbreed, making identification even more difficult.

In Explore July 14, 2009, #450. We found these wherever we went in the mountains of British Columbia and Alberta. They were often growing among plants of the Tall White Bog Orchid and seemed to vary considerably in the size of the plant and number of flowers.