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Montana Outdoors
entirely lovely
i hope to see one this year
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Comment by Tammie — June 6, 2015 @ 10:12 pm
I hope you do too, Tammie. I almost missed them this year. I will try to go look for Bitterroots too on Monday.
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Comment by montucky — June 6, 2015 @ 10:25 pm
Very nice!
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Comment by Harold Rhenisch — June 6, 2015 @ 10:40 pm
Thanks Harold!
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Comment by montucky — June 6, 2015 @ 10:45 pm
Wow! What a lovely find!
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — June 6, 2015 @ 11:03 pm
I look forward to their blooming. Fortunately, there are several places quite close where I can find them.
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:04 pm
So beautiful! The Lady Slipper has been a favorite wild flower of mine since I was a child. Thank you for sharing this photo with us!
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Comment by Where God Takes Me — June 6, 2015 @ 11:05 pm
Mine too! I’m glad that you like them!
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:05 pm
How very beautiful! Superb photos, too.
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Comment by Jo Woolf — June 7, 2015 @ 1:15 am
Thanks Jo. I think this and the Fairyslippers are the prettiest of our wild orchids.
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:06 pm
Unusual and beautiful! I’m reminded of a decoration on a gift-wrapped present with the curled ribbon parts dangling out. Thank you for sharing another treasure from your part of the world. 🙂
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Comment by Jane — June 7, 2015 @ 1:20 am
I don’t understand them, but I sure love to see them!
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:07 pm
They so much look like ballet slippers…I especially like the pair of them in your 2nd photo.
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Comment by Candace — June 7, 2015 @ 1:35 am
They do. My wife said now she needs to fins her old ballet slippers!
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:07 pm
Beautiful …
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Comment by Teresa Evangeline — June 7, 2015 @ 5:35 am
Thanks Teresa!
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:08 pm
A flower that I’m sure isn’t seen every day!
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Comment by centralohionature — June 7, 2015 @ 5:56 am
I’m afraid that lots of people don’t notice them. They aren’t exactly rare here, but usually overlooked.
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:09 pm
That’s a beautiful orchid. I’ve never seen a white one.
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Comment by New Hampshire Garden Solutions — June 7, 2015 @ 7:44 am
White is the oly color we have in this immediate area, although I’ve read of yellow ones in Montana somewhere.
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:10 pm
A fellow in New England just posted a series on his species of ladyslipper. What I somehow had missed in earlier postings are those wonderful twisted petals — the same in his photos and yours. Now, they suddenly remind me of ribbons, like the ones on my ballet slippers when I was young: the sort that criss-crossed up above the ankle, leaving a bit of ribbon to dangle and twirl.
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Comment by shoreacres — June 7, 2015 @ 8:38 am
They are very well named then! My wife has said about the same thing!
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:10 pm
I was twelve years old before I was allowed to go on point. I even tried toe/tap, rather slippery to say the least! I was an instructor to the little kids which was a lot of fun & took lessons from age 4 to 18. I always wanted to be a Rockett, but atlas, too short! The story of my life!
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Comment by Roselyn — June 10, 2015 @ 2:53 pm
Hi Montucky, Wow! Super lovely orchid. I love how the sides of the bloom twist. Have a fine coming week!
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Comment by wildlifewatcher — June 7, 2015 @ 10:37 am
We have about a dozen wild orchids here, but this is one of the prettiest.
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Comment by montucky — June 7, 2015 @ 6:11 pm
Great shots.
Looks like one of the smaller orchids too. They look much more attractive than the cultivated ones.
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Comment by Vicki — June 8, 2015 @ 6:33 am
We have only about a dozen wild orchids in this area, and they are all quite small but very pretty.
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Comment by montucky — June 8, 2015 @ 8:20 am
Oh these are so tiny and pretty.
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Comment by Mama's Empty Nest — June 8, 2015 @ 10:03 am
Part of the fascination about wild flowers.
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Comment by montucky — June 8, 2015 @ 11:36 am
Beautiful images and subjects Terry I absolutely love Lady Slippers !!
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Comment by Bernie Kasper — June 8, 2015 @ 1:49 pm
Thanks Bernie. They are such different blossoms.
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Comment by montucky — June 8, 2015 @ 6:26 pm
It does look very much like a slipper. Wonderful details.
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Comment by seekraz — June 9, 2015 @ 9:15 am
Not all that many flowers are so well named. This little orchid certainly deserves a nice name!
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Comment by montucky — June 9, 2015 @ 9:35 pm
Awesome looking. Not found in my country.
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Comment by Sartenada — June 10, 2015 @ 4:53 am
They certainly are unusual.
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Comment by montucky — June 10, 2015 @ 12:23 pm
Nice to learn what these are called. I was surprised to find a single clump of these along Grant Creek Road outside Missoula with a DOZEN blooms! No others in sight.
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Comment by Kim — June 11, 2015 @ 9:01 pm
I know of several places for them here, but I’m sure there are others. They have a fairly short blooming period, so they can easily be missed in any given area.
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Comment by montucky — June 11, 2015 @ 9:50 pm
very nice!
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Comment by nwwildflowers — June 11, 2015 @ 11:30 pm
Thanks!
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Comment by montucky — June 12, 2015 @ 6:55 am