Calypso bulbosa var. occidentalis fma. nivea

I have a few more pictures to post from our Winchester Mountain hike last summer, but thought I would intersperse them with some pictures of native orchids taken more recently. This the "albino" form of the Western Fairy Slipper, with none of the darker coloring of that species. It is quite rare and we found only two of them this summer in all the different places where we found Fairy Slippers. The ordinary form is shown in the inset. This was photographed with my Canon 100mm macro lens.