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Old 07-16-2014, 02:29 AM
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Found in the south bay area of California, specifically the Santa Cruz mountains. Green terrestrial, loses its leaves as it spikes. Any ideas?
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Old 07-16-2014, 12:20 PM
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No idea, but super small and very cute.
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Old 07-16-2014, 03:15 PM
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Piperia ?
http://www.inaturalist.org/lists/209...Native-Orchids
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Old 07-19-2014, 03:29 PM
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There are two good resources for CA native orchids:
Coleman: Wild Orchids of California
The Wild Orchids of California (Comstock books): Ronald A. Coleman: Amazon.com: Books
And also look at the Calflora website.

Looks to me most like Piperia transversa, but you may want to check more carefully than my 2 minutes on Calflora. Calflora also has a county filter, so you can narrow it down geographically.
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Found in the south bay area of California, specifically the Santa Cruz mountains. Green terrestrial, loses its leaves as it spikes. Any ideas?
No idea unfortunately, but I love this plant. Which trail were you hiking on in Santa Cruz? I explore over there pretty frequently and would love to search for one of these.
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Not sure what it is, but I'm sure it's one of the ones Ron Hanko has shown pictures of before. He might have more idea what it is.
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