Check out this cluster of Ladyslipper orchids!!!  Cypripedium acaule.  
 

This picture was taken at Brasstown Bald, on the trail coming up from Hwy 180.  I still remember the first time I saw one in the wild.  First I saw the thick, leathery leaves, and thought, "that looks like an orchid."  We continued on up the trail, and saw colonies of them in bloom!!!!!  I almost fainted.  There were thousands of them.  Since then, we go up every year around May 1st, to walk the trail up to Brasstown Bald and see the Ladyslipper orchids.  
 

I wish these grew in our woods too.  But they don't transplant well.  This orchid has a symbiotic relationship with the mycelia in the soil in the places where they grow.    They have to grow where the conditions are right.  So we just have to go to them.  WORTH IT!!!!  
 

Thought you'd like to see them.  
 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!