paul in AZ
Probably an area with plenty of composted leaves kept damp by favorable rains at the right time.
I used to have a greenhouse full of tropical orchids and also tramped woods searching for the wild ones -to photograph, not cut. The best find was in a trembling bog in northern Michigan. Many hundreds of slippers and zillions of mosquitos.
My lot where I lived in Mass. had a back corner that was dampish, not swampy. In a good year there were many Cyps and in some years, none. I was never sure why. They are pretty fussy.
Cyps are the showiest of the wild orchids but there are a great many almost inconspicuous native varieties that don't look like your image of an orchid. None in the desert but I did find one rare species with half inch flowers in a pine forest in northern Az.
They are disappearing.