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An Orchid in the Sunshine! I had been waiting for this flower to open up. It grows next to the pathway between the house and where we park the car. While waiting I was afraid the deer would eat my “model”. Canada,Corallorhiza mertensiana,Geotagged,Merten’s Coralroot,Pacific coralroot,Spring Click/tap to enlarge

An Orchid in the Sunshine!

I had been waiting for this flower to open up. It grows next to the pathway between the house and where we park the car. While waiting I was afraid the deer would eat my “model”.

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The Pacific coralroot

''Corallorhiza mertensiana'', or Pacific coralroot, is a coralroot orchid native to the shady conifer forests of northwestern North America. It also goes by the common names Western coralroot and Mertens' coralroot. ''Corallorhiza mertensiana'' was previously considered a subspecies of ''Corallorhiza maculata'' but was given species rank in 1997 by Freudenstein.

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Species identified by gary fast
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Uploaded May 7, 2019. Captured May 7, 2019 09:58 in 315 Whaletown Rd, Whaletown, BC V0P 1Z0, Canada.
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  • E-M5MarkII
  • f/18.0
  • 1/125s
  • ISO1250
  • 60mm