Coastal meadow with Indian paintbrush (Castilleja miniata), white bog orchid (Platanthera dilatata), Nootka lupin (Lupinus nootkatensis) and Pacific silverweed (Argentina pacifica), Port Houghton, Southeast Alaska, USA.
There are extensive grass meadows at the head of the inlet beyond the mud flats, and then again at the head of the salt chuck. Dotted around the expanse of green grass there are concentrated oases of plants in bloom like this. One large patch past the salt chuck bristled with a profusion of white bog orchids: more than I have seen anywhere else before.
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- Alaska-vegetation11-2.jpg
- Copyright
- Duncan Murrell
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- Contained in galleries
- Meadows and Muskeg
