365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Saturday, May 6, 2017
My Buddy Calypso
Day 205: For the second time this spring, I was sent on a mission by the Park's Plant Ecologist, specifically related to Calypso bulbosa, Calypso Orchids. The first project was mapping sites where they are known to occur, and I had to do it from memory because they had not yet emerged. This week's goal was to find any which might have popped up following a few days of warm weather. I found quite a few, but none was open farther than the specimen in this photo. It won't be long before tiny spots of magenta begin appearing in the carpet of moss, but for now, it takes a finely tuned eye to find these native beauties. Calypso is my "buddy," and gives me the cue to start searching for other rarer Orchidaceae.
Labels:
bud,
Calypso bulbosa,
Calypso Orchid,
Longmire,
MORA
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