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    Love Them & Leave Them

    Feb 25, 2021 5 minutes
    WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY AMY GRISAK

    Three moms and a passel of kids went on a mission last spring: Find the fairy slippers! That’s to say, we were searching for the fairy slipper orchids (Calyspo bulbusa) that bloom only for a short time in the Little Belt Mountains of central Montana.

    After the first big pull up a hill and a surprise discovery of a perfect morel mushroom, we located a small patch. The bright pinkish-purple blooms with their gaping pouch and flaring upper petals look like no other flower in the area. They rated high on the “cool” scale for the kids; they studied the flowers up close and then ran ahead to find the next patch.

    I never thought about orchids until I learned that they grow in Glacier National Park, which, frankly, blew my mind. As they do for many people, orchids bring to my mind a warm,

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