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Please, never pick or attempt to transplant 
Orchids (or any other) wild plant. 

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Many Orchids are endangered.
Orchid habitat is very specialized.
Orchid pollination is very specialized.
Orchid germination is very specialized.
Admire them in the wild and let them live.

Also see Corallorhiza maculata, Calypso bulbosa, Epipactis gigantea, and Cypripedium calceolus, and White Orchids

 

Coeloglossum viride.  Synonyms: Habenaria viridis. (Long-bracted Orchid)
Orchidaceae (Orchid Family)

Blooming information withheld to protect the Orchids.

This unusual Orchid is recognized by its long, green, sharply pointed bracts (see especially the last photograph on this page), a lower flower lip with two prominent lobes and often one very small central lobe, and a minute double bladder at the base of the lower lip.  (The bladder is usually referred to as a spur.)  In the Four Corners area, C. viride is found only in Colorado in Montezuma and La Plata Counties.  The plant is relatively uncommon in the West but is widespread in the north-central and north-eastern United States.

The plant was first named Satyrium viride by Linnaeus in 1753, was renamed Habenaria viridis by Robert Brown in 1813, and Carl Hartman assigned its present name in 1820.  "Coeloglossum" is from the Greek for "hollow, or sheathed, tongue" and "viride" is Latin for "green".

Coeloglossum viride.  Synonyms: Habenaria viridis. (Long-bracted Orchid)
Orchidaceae (Orchid Family)

Coeloglossum viride.  Synonyms: Habenaria viridis. (Long-bracted Orchid)
Orchidaceae (Orchid Family)