RHH's photos with the keyword: 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.

This is the Green Bog Orchid, Platnathera huronensis, photographed in Banff National Park In Alberta where it is often found growing in large numbers in wet areas.

The Northern White Bog Orchid is not only very elegant but also very fragrant, growing in boggy mountainous areas all across the west.

This, the Northern Green Bog Orchid is another of the small-flowered green Bog Orchids that are difficult to identify and often go unnoticed.

This is one of the small-flowered green orchids of the Pacific Northwest, the Northern Green Bog Orchid, Platanthera aquilonis. These green-flowered orchids are very difficult to tell apart but this one is distinguished by its small, yellowish pointed lip and its forward-curved spur.

Growing in a marshy area in Kootenay National Park, this mix of Bog Orchids is one of our favorite subjects for photography when traveling through that area early in the summer. There are at least three different Bog Orchids here, growing with sedges and other bog plants. The white-flowered plants are one species of Bog Orchid, the green-flowered another species and a hybrid of the white and the green.

These Bog Orchids were photographed in Kootenay National Park in British Columbia in 2014. The plant with the greenish flowers is the Green Bog Orchid, Platanthera huronensis. The white-flowered plant behind it is the Northern White Bog Orchid, Platanthera dilatata. These plants grow together in the boggy meadow where they were photographed and with then grows a natural hybrid of the two.

While photographing Bog Orchids (Tall Northern Green Bog Orchid in this case) in Kootenay National Park in British Columbia, I stopped to photograph this moth, never realizing until I arrived home that the moth was in the clutches of a Crab Spider which must have been hiding out on the orchid.

You can't actually see the bug since he hides in the "spittle" he makes. He is actually a small hopper that encases himself in foam. In this case he has chosen the White Bog Orchid, Platanthera dilatata for his home.

Taking photos of Bog Orchids in Kootenay National Park in British Columbia, we found this Crab Spider hiding out among the flowers. One of the insets shows another Crab Spider with a captured moth and the second inset shows a Spittle Bug, though only the spittle and not the bug is visible. The orchid is Platanthera huronensis, the Tall Northern Bog Orchid, very common in the Canadian Rockies.

Driving through Kootenay National Park in British Columbia we found and photographed a field of Bog Orchids. These are the Bog Candle, Platanthera dilatata (white), and the Tall Northern Bog Orchis, Platanthera huronensis and among therm were also a natural hybrid, one of the green Bog Orchids of the western USA and Canada that are very difficult to identify, in part because they hybridize and intergrade with one another.

Driving through Kootenay National Park in British Columbia we found and photographed a field of Bog Orchids. This one is the Bog Candle, Platanthera dilatata and there were growing with it the Tall Northern Bog Orchis, Platanthera huronensis, as well as a natural hybrid, one of the green Bog Orchids of the western USA and Canada that are very difficult to identify, in part because they hybridize and intergrade with one another.

Driving through Kootenay National Park in British Columbia we found and photographed a field of Bog Orchids. This one is the Bog Candle, Platanthera dilatata and there were growing with it the Tall Northern Bog Orchis, Platanthera huronensis, as well as a natural hybrid, one of the green Bog Orchids of the western USA and Canada that are very difficult to identify, in part because they hybridize and intergrade with one another (see insets).

Driving through Kootenay National Park in British Columbia we found and photographed a field of Bog Orchids. This one is the Tall Northern Bog Orchis, Platanthera huronensis, and there were growing with it white Bog Orchid, Platanthera dilatata, as well as a natural hybrid, one of the green Bog Orchids of the western USA and Canada that are very difficult to identify, in part because they hybridize and intergrade with one another.