These do look like sprouts of something. Last year I kept waiting for them to get on with it and do what they were going to do. Turns out, what you see in these photos is pretty much all they do. From what I saw last year, this is pretty much as good as it gets. They don't get much larger, and then they die down,
I thought I might be onto something when I found pics of
Corallorhiza orchids.
Corallorhiza maculata:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/...
Corallorhiza wisteriana:
http://www.flwildflowers.com/g...
But with all the
Corallorhiza species I could find, the flowers actually open up, and the underground structures are all wrong.
Still researching!
