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.
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