Neottia auriculata [Auricled Twayblade]

Neottia auriculata. Coos County,N.H.7-4-21. All that is left of this years flower, notice the ovary is started to swell with seed behind the flower stalk after having been pollinated by a fungus gnat at an earlier time.  ​

Neottia auriculata. Coos County,N.H.7-4-21. All that is left of this years flower, notice the ovary is started to swell with seed behind the flower stalk after having been pollinated by a fungus gnat at an earlier time.  

Close up of the anther cap which holds the pollen for the flower of Neottia auriculata. Coos County,N.H.7-4-21

Neottia auriculata. Coos County,N.H.7-4-21

Neottia auriculata. Coos County,N.H.7-4-21

Neottia auriculata. Coos County,N.H.7-4-21

Neottia auriculata. Coos County,N.H.7-4-21

Neottia auriculata. Coos County,N.H.7-4-21

Neottia auriculata, with the flowers all but gone, you can see the ovaries swelling behind the flowers with seed. Coos County, N.H.7-4-21   

Neottia auriculata and habitat [ stream and river banks that have been scoured by winters ice]. Coos County, New Hampshire.7-4-21