RHH's photos with the keyword: huronensis

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.

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.

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.

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 (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.

These were photographed along the highway in Thompson Pass between Glennallen and Valdez. We found three different orchids in the place where we stopped, this the tallest and the one that caught our attention as we drove by. Its Latin name is Platanthera huronensis and it is a common orchid across the USA and Canada. This species can be as tall as three feet (90-100 cm) but these were 18 inches (45 cm) or less.

Photographed along the Yellowhead Highway in British Columbia, this is one of the green-flowered Platantheras that are so difficult to identify, but this fits best though not perfectly the description of Platanthera huronensis, the Green Bog Orchis.

The green bog orchids are notoriously difficult to identify and intergrade with each other, but this fits the description of Platanthera huronensis, the Green Bog Orchis, quite well. These can grow quite tall, up to three feet and can have around eighty flowers per spike. The individual flowers, however, are quite small and nondescript as is evident from the photo. This was photographed along the highway in Mount Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia.

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.