In the wild...is it an orchid?

[mrobert]

Most of the ID questions are just too easy. Here is something a little harder. I don't even know if it is an orchid...for all I know it might be a weed.

Location: Pacific Grove California
Growing in sandy, dense, and moist soil and sprouting up from beneath a thick growth of English Ivy growing in the shade.
The deep red in the center of the flower is a little bucket of nectar. The pollen is above this bucket and is "in a packet" (like many orchids) (as opposed to freely dispersing and dusting off, like a lily). After handling the plant gently I noticed I had triggered a mechanism that ejected and glued the pollen pods to my hand. There were three plants in and the two in bloom had color variation (the one growing in more light had less vivid colors).