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Old 10-07-2014, 10:00 PM
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After seeing naoki's Calypso post, then bringing the subject up in a couple of other threads myself, I decided to dig out some of my Alaskan native orchid photos.

In the late '80s when the Alaskan economy went down the chuter, I moved out to the Aleutians, the Dutch Harbor / Unalaska area to find work rather than leave the state. I have always had a great interest in wildflowers and spend a lot of time looking for and I.D.'ing them. While out in Dutch, among others, I ran into this wildflower:
Dactylorhiza aristata

The first time I ran across one, I immediately recognized it as an orchid. I was flabbergasted by its existence. I never would have suspected that there would be orchids in the Aleutians, or Alaska for that matter. I have kept my eyes open for native orchids ever since. It seems that my interest in orchids began with finding this particular orchid.

Many years later I stumbled upon this one:
Hammarbya paludosa


I was out photographing bog wildflowers when I stumbled across this one. It was so small, only 1-1/2" TO 2" tall.
I spent days scouring that bog for more of them. I did find a few, but never found any anywhere else than in that bog.

In dryer parts of that bog, I would find this one growing:
Spiranthes romanzoffiana



I'm not certain now, but I believe these are:
Platanthera hyperboria


The Green Bog Candle

This one is my favorite Alaskan orchid:
Platanthera dilatata


The White Bog Candle
It is very fragrant and smells like a mixture of cinnamon and cloves.

Platantheras dilatata and hyperboria will form hybrid swarms. They are usually white and fragrant like the dilatata.
These are very much larger than any dilatatas I'd ever seen before. I believe they are a natural hybrid:



And finally, no Alaskan orchid collection would be complete without:
Calypso bulbosa




This is the more common color variation:


That's enough, and all I can find right now.

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Old 10-07-2014, 10:57 PM
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Wow, Dutch Harbor! Sounds like a quite a place to live. Thank you very much for the nice photos! Is Cyp. yatabeanum in Unalaska?
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Old 10-08-2014, 01:16 AM
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Hi naoki, I enjoyed your Calypso pics.

Not to my knowledge.
I've only seen what I've assumed was simply a Cyp. gutatum gutatum.
And, that was on the mainland.

My personal authority on Alaskan plants is:
Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories
A Manual of the Vascular Plants
By Eric Hulten
1990 printing

[I still have it]

It says that Cyp. gutatum subsp. yatabeanum is found no further east than the furthest West Aleutians, the area of Attu, Aggatu, and Shemya islands. Anything further East is a hybrid or intermediate between Cyp. gutatum sbsp. gutatum and subsp. yatabeanum.

What I gather from that, as an ignorant lay person, is:
Science is a publish or die endeavor.
The differences between sbsp. gutatum and subsp. yatabeanum are so minor, well within pre-differentiation local variability, that I suspect genome tests would say they were one and the same. I suspect subsp. yatabeanum to be the result of Makino's attempt to keep from dieing on the scientific vine. And, I could be so full of B.S. that my green eyes are turning brown too.
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Old 10-08-2014, 04:02 PM
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Hulten's book is pretty hard-core!

That's pretty interesting. I've seen records of C. yatabeanum from Unalaska, but maybe they may not be "pure" as you say. I've never seen C. yatabeanum, and don't know well about the difference. I don't know well about the taxonomic background of these two, but is the main difference color (pink vs greenish brown)?

Alaska Botanical Garden was looking for photos of some of these orchids earlier this year. They might have already gotten photos, but I'll try to forward the info to you via PM.
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Old 10-08-2014, 06:18 PM
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Nice pics! The Platanthera dilatata is amazing, and that last Calypso bulbosa : D
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Old 10-08-2014, 06:55 PM
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Hulten's book is pretty hard-core!

That's pretty interesting. I've seen records of C. yatabeanum from Unalaska, but maybe they may not be "pure" as you say. I've never seen C. yatabeanum, and don't know well about the difference. I don't know well about the taxonomic background of these two, but is the main difference color (pink vs greenish brown)?

Alaska Botanical Garden was looking for photos of some of these orchids earlier this year. They might have already gotten photos, but I'll try to forward the info to you via PM.
Hulten's tome is current to 1968.
I do not believe there were any revisions made up to the 1990 printing.
It is very possible [likely?] more information has been made available since then.
But, from Hulten:







The photos are stolen from a German website.
And, as my virtual life coach and mentor, Craig Ferguson says:
Everything on the internet is true. Right?

Now, per Hulten the pink form is a guttatum guttatum, not a Yatabeanum.
Also, under the color photo in the color section he refers to Yatabeanum as a race. That kinda reinforces my attitude on these cyps.

I took a look at your PM.
I'll get to it soon.
I'm pretty busy right now prepping for being cut-off by the lava flow and out of state family visitors coming tomorrow for the next few days.
I'm trying to mow lawn right now but, intermittent rain is letting me come in and work on this a bit at a time.

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Loved my vacations to AK and such lovely flowers from the state may be an eye-opener to some who didn't realize such things grow there. But that calypso makes me wanna dance! Great fotos.
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Great post, thanks.
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Magnificent thanks for sharing!
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