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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: johnralphcarpenter on July 23, 2013, 08:04:33 PM
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My mother-in-law has sent this picture of a "weed" growing in her garden in Southern Ontario. Can anyone identify?
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Oh to have such "weeds"! Looks like an Epipactis - certainly some sort of orchid.....
I thought E. helleborine - a European species whic seemed unlikely in Ontario- but a rootle around the internet tells me that this orchid is indeed quite common around the Pacific North West, for instance.......
http://nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-northwests-two-epipactis-species.html (http://nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-northwests-two-epipactis-species.html) ..... fancy that!
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Oh to have such "weeds"! Looks like an Epipactis - certainly some sort of orchid.....
Probably Epipactis helleborine? Know to grow in the area.
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Ah I see you posted while I was modifying my post..... yes, Epipactis helleborine I think.
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Presumably the north east of Canada too, in Ontario? Very nice "weed" Rob.
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We found it as an introduced 'weed' almost everywhere we went in Ontario last month, though not in flower.
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This "weed" invited itself into my garden (in Washington state) and has seeded itself around. Not a bad color for a little orchid.