Rose Pogonia
Pine Barrens, NJ

Bill and I were walking along the Batona Trail when we paralleled a swamp near the Batsto River. I'd never seen a swamp and we took a quick look at it. Bill spotted this orchid like flower and shot it using a hand-held camera. When we got the film back we began to try and identify it. Using Howard Boyd's "A Field Guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey", we were able to identify this as a rose pogonia. Most of our guides say that rose pogonias are pink or rose colored. Boyd states that they are also known to be white. The one we photographed is a very pale pink.