Common Name: Scentbottle, White Rein Orchid, Bog Candle, Boreal Bog Orchid


One of three listed varieties. This is the "typical" variety.

Note slender greenish spur just behind and below the lower sepals approximately equal in length to the lip (labellum). Can be hard to see. Lip is generally slender at tip and broadens near base.

west North Cascades; east Central Cascades
TRAIL: Yellow Aster Butte; Lake Ingalls
HABITAT: subalpine/alpine meadow (wet)
ELEVATION: 1,220 meters (4,000 feet); 1,890 meters (6,190 feet)
BLOOM TIME: 17-JUL; 01-AUG