"Weed" growing in Ontario

[johnralphcarpenter]

My mother-in-law has sent this picture of a "weed" growing in her garden in Southern Ontario. Can anyone identify?

[Maggi Young]

Oh to have such "weeds"!  Looks like an Epipactis - certainly some sort of orchid.....


I thought E. helleborine - a European species  whic seemed unlikely in Ontario- but a rootle around the internet tells me that this orchid is indeed quite common around the Pacific North West, for instance.......
http://nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-northwests-two-epipactis-species.html ..... fancy that!

[johnralphcarpenter]

Oh to have such "weeds"!  Looks like an Epipactis - certainly some sort of orchid.....

Probably Epipactis helleborine? Know to grow in the area.

[Maggi Young]

Ah I see you posted while I was modifying my post..... yes, Epipactis helleborine I think.

[Lesley Cox]

Presumably the north east of Canada too, in Ontario? Very nice "weed" Rob.

[annew]

We found it as an introduced 'weed' almost everywhere we went in Ontario last month, though not in flower.

[Claire Cockcroft]

This "weed" invited itself into my garden (in Washington state) and has seeded itself around.  Not a bad color for a little orchid.