Calypso is a genus in the Orchidaceae family found in Eurasia and North America. It has a rootstock that is a corm-like caudex.
Calypso bulbosa has a single leaf and a single flower. In Northern California it is found in moist woods and is one of the early spring wildflowers that people delight in seeing each year. It can be grown in gardens if there are conditions in that garden that it likes, but most of us just admire it in the wild. Photos by Mary Sue Ittner. The first one was taken in Stillwater Regional Park Sonoma County and the second in Mendocino County where it was growing in the shade of Coast Redwood trees.
Photo by Bob Rutemoeller of a close-up of the flower
