Clustered Lady's Slipper
 

Also known as the Brownie Lady's Slipper, these were photographed near Plain, Washington:

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Native Orchids of the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies: Cypripedium fasciculatum near Plain

Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Wow! These flowers are so beautiful and unusual. Great picture, too!

beautiful! awesome find - thank you for sharing with us! (and for covering your tracks to help protect them)

Beautiful, it makes me miss living in the mountains of New York. Years ago we did a rescue of a huge colony of Cypripedium reginae that were in the way of a road project. There were so many of them the construction was stopped until we removed every last one of them. They, minus a few, were all re-established in areas of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Thanks, Paul, Anisa, Lana, WhiteRabbit, and glengary, and Paul, they generally do not open more than this, though a few flowers are more open.

Excellent photo of a species rarely seen. Thanks for posting.

It's certainly very rare here. WE know of only a few sites and jealously guard the information.