Calypso orchid, Venus Orchid, Calypso bulbosa

flowering season: mid May - late June, lasting only 7-10 days

June is the month of midsummer fairy forest magic, and in the Colorado foothills and high country, the short season of the ephemeral fairy slipper orchid ✨🩷✨ She blooms for only 7-10 days between mid-May and late June, depending entirely on specific mycorrhizal fungi under spruce and pine trees to survive 💖 Her name, Calypso, means "she who conceals". In Homer's Odyssey, she was a nymph who enchanted Odysseus, and kept him on her island for seven years against his will. This tiny beauty is just as enchanting! 💖

Shop prints of Fairy Slipper~ 5×7 * 8×10 * poster print