Calopogon tuberosus

Calopogon tuberosus or Common Grass-pink orchids growing in front of carnivorous pitcher plants in the front yard bog garden...

This was the first day of a two-day field trip to the Carolina Atlantic Coastal Plain to search for late Spring orchids and other wildflowers. To read more about this trip, please go to Jim's Blog ...

This was the first day of a two-day field trip to the Carolina Atlantic Coastal Plain to search for late Spring orchids and other wildflowers. To read more about this trip, please go to Jim's Blog ...

This was the first day of a two-day field trip to the Carolina Atlantic Coastal Plain to search for late Spring orchids and other wildflowers. To read more about this trip, please go to Jim's Blog ...

...seen in my front yard bog garden.

The Common Grass-pink orchids (white form) are now blooming in my front yard bog garden.

Almost a decade ago, a friend gave me a couple of corms of this rare form of Grass-pink orchid. He had gathered them from a roadside site in Brunswick County, North Carolina. They have continued to thrive and multiply in my front yard bog garden. This year, I think they are expecially nice...

Almost a decade ago, a friend gave me a couple of corms of this rare form of Grass-pink orchid. He had gathered them from a roadside site in Brunswick County, North Carolina. They have continued to thrive and multiply in my front yard bog garden. This year, I think they are expecially nice...

Almost a decade ago, a friend gave me a couple of corms of this rare form of Grass-pink orchid. He had gathered them from a roadside site in Brunswick County, North Carolina. They have continued to thrive and multiply in my front yard bog garden. This year, I think they are expecially nice...

Almost a decade ago, a friend gave me a couple of corms of this rare form of Grass-pink orchid. He had gathered them from a roadside site in Brunswick County, North Carolina. They have continued to thrive and multiply in my front yard bog garden. This year, I think they are expecially nice...

More images taken in my front yard bog garden.

More images taken in my front yard bog garden.

More images taken in my front yard bog garden.

The second field trip day of this year's annual Native Orchid Conference symposium, took us to Pennington Bog, near Pennington (Cass River), Minnesota. To find out more about this trip, please go to Jim's Blog ...

The second field trip day of this year's annual Native Orchid Conference symposium, took us to Pennington Bog, near Pennington (Cass River), Minnesota. To find out more about this trip, please go to Jim's Blog ...

The second field trip day of this year's annual Native Orchid Conference symposium, took us to Pennington Bog, near Pennington (Cass River), Minnesota. To find out more about this trip, please go to Jim's Blog ...

The second field trip day of this year's annual Native Orchid Conference symposium, took us to Pennington Bog, near Pennington (Cass River), Minnesota. To find out more about this trip, please go to Jim's Blog ...

On Saturday, May 22, the day after my book signing in Wilmington, NC, I joined a few TNC staff at a fairly new TNC site in Pender County, NC. It is not open to the public because it is still a part of an active hunt club, but I was priviledged to join the group on the field trip. The name of the site is McLean Savannah, and it is host to a number of orchid species as well as many carnivorous plant species. For more about this field trip, visit Jim's Blog .