Best Orchidaceae
The ram's-head lady's-slipper, Cypripedium arietinum, is a small terrestrial orchid native to northern North America. Its distinctive pouch-shaped flower resembles a ram's head and is marked with white, pink, and purplish coloring beneath narrow twisted sepals and petals. The plant grows in speciali...
Yellow fringed orchid, Platanthera ciliaris, is a terrestrial orchid native to eastern North America. It grows in acidic bogs, wet meadows, pine barrens, savannas, and other open, moist habitats, producing a summer spike of vivid yellow-orange flowers with deeply fringed lips. The flowers are pollin...
Rose pogonia, Pogonia ophioglossoides, is a small terrestrial orchid native to eastern North America. It inhabits sunny, acidic wetlands such as sphagnum bogs, fens, wet meadows, and the margins of peatlands, where it usually produces a single pink flower with a fringed and crested lip. Like other o...
