Piperia Orchids

There are many at the top of the dead end trail.

These look really healthy.

I also saw blossoms on the new ones across from bench nearby.

Mu favorite piperia today, 7/20.

Orchids-Lady's Tresses and Piperia

This one is the prettiest Piperia I've ever seen. 

Five Lady's Tresses

The tops are showing a twist.

Buds on the Orchids - Piperia Elegans, elegant piperia

Bud just emerging.

Next stage.

A little taller.

More detail. 

Platanthera elegans is a species of orchid known by several common names, including elegant piperia, coast piperia, hillside rein orchid, and hillside bogorchid. This is a showy flowering plant native to western North America. It grows from a caudex tuber and sends up a thick stem just under a meter in maximum height. The stem is topped with a cylindrical spike inflorescence of densely packed flowers with curving white to greenish-yellow petals.

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