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Kiki	07-16-2014 01:29 AM

Northern California terrestrial ID?

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Found in the south bay area of California, specifically the Santa Cruz mountains. Green terrestrial, loses its leaves as it spikes. Any ideas?

RandomGemini

07-16-2014 11:20 AM

No idea, but super small and very cute.

WhiteRabbit

07-16-2014 02:15 PM

Piperia ?
http://www.inaturalist.org/lists/209...Native-Orchids

tropterrarium

07-19-2014 02:29 PM

There are two good resources for CA native orchids:
Coleman: Wild Orchids of California
The Wild Orchids of California (Comstock books): Ronald A. Coleman: Amazon.com: Books
And also look at the Calflora website.

Looks to me most like Piperia transversa, but you may want to check more carefully than my 2 minutes on Calflora. Calflora also has a county filter, so you can narrow it down geographically.

brianwstephens

09-15-2014 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiki (Post 694028)

Found in the south bay area of California, specifically the Santa Cruz mountains. Green terrestrial, loses its leaves as it spikes. Any ideas?

No idea unfortunately, but I love this plant. Which trail were you hiking on in Santa Cruz? I explore over there pretty frequently and would love to search for one of these.

Tindomul

02-24-2015 08:55 PM

Very nice.

RosieC

05-09-2015 06:13 AM

Not sure what it is, but I'm sure it's one of the ones Ron Hanko has shown pictures of before. He might have more idea what it is.

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