Calypso Orchid

While reviewing some photo files today I discovered that I had forgotten to do anything with some photos of one of my favorite flowers that I had taken back in May on a hike into the Cherry Peak roadless area in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains here in western Montana. In the hope that someone may enjoy seeing them, I uploaded them to Flickr and am posting them here now.

Calypso Orchid, Fairy Slipper, Calypso bulbosa

According to USDA Plants, Calypso bulbosa is “Endangered” in New Hampshire and New York and “Threatened” in Michigan, Vermont and Wisconsin.

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Full cycle

Every summer I see thousands of these blossoms

Goatsbeard, tragopogon dubius

and roughly an equal number of their seed heads,

but I guess I haven’t been paying very close attention though because this morning was the first time I saw both on one stalk.