After leaving Derby Canyon early in the morning on the 10th of June, we went on to the town of Plain, north of Leavenworth. We visited a site outside the town looking for the rare Clustered Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium fasciculatum), also known as the Brownie Lady's Slipper.
We quickly found a lot of the Western Spotted Coralroot (Corallorhiza maculata var. occidentalis) in the woods. They seem to be very abundant this year and this site was no exception. We searched everywhere for the Lady's Slipper, however, and in the end only found four plants.
We spent quite some time photographing them, not an easy task on the steep slopes where they grow and also took a few other pictures of the area and the wildflowers there before going on to our final hiking destination, Chiwaukum Creek, west of Leavenworth.
We had also been to the area about a month earlier and took a few pictures then as well, especially of the Oregon Anemones (Anemone oregana) in bloom. At that time we found some of the native orchids growing in the woods but not yet blooming.
