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Top: Longbract frog orchid and Mountain death camas Bottom: Lesser yellow lady's slipper, Wood lily, and Pink wintergreen.

All found not too far from Canmore, Alberta, Canada.

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[–] BlueDiamond@rammy.site 6 points 1 year ago

Nature is rad.

[–] dax 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

whoever named that lesser yellow lady's slipper had a grossly inflated idea of how fancy slippers commonly get

[–] Noodleneedles 3 points 1 year ago

Right? They should've gone with fairy slipper; I feel like fairies would have fancy slippers.

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