The wild orchids that shouldn't be here but are anyway

Once in a while, nature finds a way to tease us about how little we understand our world. And a delicate red and white flower is doing that right now, near Arnprior.
The ram’s head ladyslipper is a wild orchid. It grows almost nowhere: a few isolated pockets in Ontario around Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula, and in some Northeastern U.S. states. Even fewer on the Prairies. Nova Scotia. A few in China.
The ram’s head is ultra-choosy about its habitat. It