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Grass Pink

Calopogon pulchellus

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Field Notes

Description:

15" tall
2- 10 fragrant upside- down orchids open sequentially up stalk.
1 1/2" pink flowers, with uppermost petal yellow bearded.
1 grass like leaf.
Do not pick.
Blooms June-July

Habitat:

Bogs and moist meadows.

Notes:

Source: Nat'l Audobon Soc'ty Field Guide to New England
by Peter Alden and Brian Cassie

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Freshwater Wetland Wildlife and Vegetation - Northeastern US
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Wild Orchids
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Plants, Animals, Birds and Reptiles of Northern New England
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BioBlitz, Maine
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Spotted in Summer in the North East
Photographed
PublishedJune 27, 2013

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