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Rain orchid or bog orchid        Images © Mark A. Chappell

There are many small and fairly subtle orchids native to the continental United States.   This elegant species (Habenaria dilatata) is found along streams and in wet meadows in the mountains of California.   These were growing in Mammoth Lakes, at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada in California's Mono County.

Canon 1D Mk. II, Canon 100 mm macro lens, fill-in flash (close-up), or 500 mm IS lens + 1.4X converter and extension tubes, some with fill-in flash (2006)