It is always a special treat to stumble across a native orchid when out for a hike and the Yellow Lady’s Slipper is a bright patch of yellow sunshine among the green backdrop. The yellow slipper blossom is about 2 inches long.

Yellow Lady’s Slipper

With Lake Michigan on one side and the warmer water of Green Bay on the other side of the peninsula of Door County, it was interesting that not only were the wildflowers a month or more behind in blooming compared to my woods, the ten miles or so between the two coasts also had a difference in what flowers were in blossoms.

There were flowers there not present in my area and it was a lovely treat to find patches of Yellow Lady’s Slipper orchids still in full bloom.

Yellow Lady’s Slippers