{"id":30681,"date":"2021-06-05T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30681"},"modified":"2021-06-05T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:33:18","slug":"two-june-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30681","title":{"rendered":"Two June orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since mid-May, I have been watching for the appearance of the mountain lady&#8217;s slipper. I had already posted images of two earlier local wild orchids: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30447\">fairy slippers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30565\">striped coralroots<\/a>. But, the mountain lady&#8217;s slipper had yet to appear. Today we saw five of them along a trail in Kokanee Creek Park. Now, that was nice enough, but behind them in the woods was a freshly blooming spotted coralroot, something I had last seen a number of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>One of five mountain lady&#8217;s slippers seen beside a trail.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mountainladysslipper210605as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The flowers of the spotted coralroot grow as a raceme: multiple flowers sprouting from a single stalk. The flowers of a raceme start low on the stalk and gradually spread upwards. This one had just begun, so flowers did not yet cover the whole stalk. Maybe a more impressive image is yet to come.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30682\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/spottedcoralroot210605s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Since mid-May, I have been watching for the appearance of the mountain lady&#8217;s slipper. I had already posted images of two earlier local wild orchids: fairy slippers, and striped coralroots. But, the mountain lady&#8217;s slipper had yet to appear. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30681"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30693,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30681\/revisions\/30693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}