Orchid and Poppy Wild Flowers
Orchid and Poppy Wild Flowers
In the Orchid family, the wild flower call Calopogon or Grass Pink is scientifically named Limodorum tuberosum or Calopogon pulchellus of Gray. This plant produces anywhere from three to fifteen purplish pink flowers on a spike, with each flower being about one inch long. Calopogon means “beautiful beard” and this plant sports the name because of dense white, yellow and magenta hairs found on it.
It’s a bulb plant, with long grass like leaves, that likes to live in swamps, cranberry bogs, and low meadows. It blooms from June to July and does well from Florida west to the Mississippi.
This orchid is lovely and some consider it the most interesting of the orchid flower family. It grows well and tends to outnumber other bog-loving relatives like the rose pogonia wild flower.
This plant has a crested lip on the upper part of the flower, which makes it look like it’s growing upside down.
The wild flower known as Pink Or Pale Corydalis (Capnoides sempervirens; Corydalis glauca of Gray) is part of the Poppy family. It produces small, half-inch wide pink flowers with a yellow tip. It has a smooth, curved, branched stem and grows one to two feet tall. The leaves are a grayish green color and delicate. This plant also produces a very narrow, one to two inch long seed pod.
The Corydalis wild flower likes rocky, rich, cool woods, and it blooms from April to September. It grows well in Alaska, south to Minnesota and North Carolina.
Dainty little pink sacs, yellow at the mouth, hang upside down along a graceful stem, making this wild flower look a lot like Dutchman’s breeches, squirrel corn, bleeding heart, and climbing fumitory, to which the plant is next of kin.
The Deptford Pink wild flower, Dianthus Armeria, is part of the Pink family. And indeed it blooms with small clusters of pink flowers that have whitish dots on them. This plant grows just six to eighteen inches high in a stiff, erect manner. The stem has fine hairs on it and it doesn’t branch out much. The leaves are generally blade-shaped, with lower ones being a bit rounded on the end.
This plant likes to grow in fields or on roadsides, and it blooms from June to September. Agreeable climates for this plant include Southern Ontario, New England, south to Maryland,
and west to Michigan.
The true pinks of Europe, among which are the SWEET WILLIAM or BUNCH PINK (D. barbatus) of our gardens, occasionally wild here, and the deliciously spicy CLOVE PINK (D. Carophyllus), ancestor of the superb carnations of the present day, that have reached a climax in the Lawson pink of newspaper fame, were once held sacred to Jupiter, hence Dianthus = Jove’s own flower. The Deptford pink, a rather insignificant little European immigrant, without fragrance, has a decided charm, nevertheless, when seen in bright patches among the dry grass of early autumn, with small butterflies, that are its devoted admirers, hovering above.
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