RHH's photos with the keyword: lineata

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.

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.