Like wildflowers

A yellow orchid, shaped like a shoe, in the middle of dense greenery.

“Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”
    – E.V. Rogina

A small purple blossom, with yellow and white streaks on each of its three petals, grows out of the forest floor next to a pine cone.

A few wildflowers I came across in Door County. The first two are endangered species in Wisconsin: Lady slipper orchid (top), and dwarf lake iris (above).

A small stalk with 12 white blossoms grows out of a marsh.

A closeup of the tiny bogbean blossom makes its delicate nature very apparent.

Close up of bogbean blossoms. Tiny white star-shaped flowers with curly, lace-like parts growing out of each center.