I was offered a chance to visit a location with a good number of moccasin flowers. A relatively rare wild orchid, they grow in a few areas with the right soil conditions. Usually pink in colour, but occasionally, third picture, they can be quite pale.
They grow singly, either on their own, sometimes with other nearby individual plants or in clumps. One clump I found had 13 plants. A small "field" had 17 plants.
There were other flowers blooming, along with moss and map turtles on rocks offshore. (Mouse over the picture for an ID of the flower.)
Rock Harlequin
Fringed Polygia
Columbine
Foram Flower
Star Flower
Blueberry
Wintergreen
Moss
Map Turtles
