moccasin flower
lady's slipper orchids
lady slipper orchids
slipper orchids Cypripedium latin

In the center was the state seal wreathed with white moccasin flowers, on a blue field.

A gravel path from the garden to the pond passes through a native stand of some 175 moccasin flowers.

The lady's slipper orchid, called the moccasin flower in the United States

Irene grew a moccasin flower, a hairbrush cactus, and, for good measure, a necklace plant so people could dress up.

Moccasin Flower

The same collecting problem exists for the beautiful terrestrial orchid moccasin flower, also known as pink ladyslipper (Cypripedium acaule).

The lady's slipper is also known in the United States of America as the moccasin flower, from its resemblance to a moccasin.

Typically a New England landscape, the plants ranged from tall meadow rue, adapted to wet soils, to pink moccasin flower.

Pink Lady's Slipper, Stemless Lady's-slipper, or Moccasin Flower (Cypripedium acaule) is pink, deep rose, to white color flower.

Cypripedium montanum (Large Lady's-slipper, Mountain Lady's-slipper, White Lady's-slipper, Moccasin flower; Alaska to California)

It is commonly known as the Large Lady's Slipper, Mountain Lady's Slipper, White Lady's Slipper as well as Moccasin Flower.

First described in 1789 by Scottish botanist William Aiton, C. acaule is commonly referred to as the Pink Lady's Slipper, Stemless Lady's-slipper, or Moccasin Flower.

Two signs the casual observer can look for, he said, are a lack of the brown carpet of decaying autumn leaves where there should be one, and fewer examples of the understory growth - Canada mayflowers, trout lilies, moccasin flowers - that one would expect to find.

Although this plant was chosen as the provincial flower for Prince Edward Island in 1947, it is so rare on the island that another Lady's-slipper, C. acaule (moccasin flower or pink lady slipper), has replaced it as the province's floral emblem.

American Valerian, Bleeding Heart, Cypripedium calceolus, Cypripedium parviflorum, Cypripedium pubescens, Lady's Slipper, Moccasin Flower, Monkey Flower, Noah's Ark, Sabot de la Vierge, Shoe, Slipper Root, Venus' Shoe, Yellows.

Members of this genus are commonly referred to as lady's slipper orchids.

Lady's slipper orchids are the orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioidea.

Lady's slipper orchids

Cypripedium acaule (lady's slipper orchids)

About 20 species of these lady's slipper orchids are known from SW Mexico, Central and tropical South America.

The seed capsules of these Central and South American lady's slipper orchids were formerly used as vanilla substitutes, but selenipediums are now rarely cultivated.

It is common among Lady's Slipper orchids (Cypripedioideae) that the two lateral sepals are connate to form a synsepal in the outer whorl.

A large, and beloved, stand of yellow lady's slipper orchids disappeared on the 6,500-acre Mohonk Preserve in New Paltz, N.Y., over 100 years.

The tropical lady's slipper orchids, paphiopedilums, may require a somewhat extravagant initial financial outlay, but linger a long time and send up blossoms in an east or west window.

The California lady's slipper (Cypripedium californicum) is a member of the orchid genus Cypripedium, the lady's slipper orchids.

Last spring, while walking in a remote stretch of woods and looking for blooming lady's slipper orchids in my hometown, Easton, Conn., I met Larry Fischer.

The wildflowers, which peak each year in May, include bleeding heart, bluebells, hepatica, trillium and yellow lady's slipper orchids, accented by native shrubs like beautyberry and American andromeda.

Kradum Ngoen (Eriocaulon henryanum Ruhle) and lady's slipper orchids (Paphiopedilum sukhakulii Schoser & Senghas) comprise the undergrowth of the hill evergreen forest.

Today the garden cultivates about 8,000 plant species, ranging from endangered local species from the Rhineland such as Lady's Slipper Orchids to protected species such as Sophora toromiro from Easter Island.

Lady's slipper orchids (also known as lady slipper orchids or slipper orchids) are orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioideae, which includes the genera Cypripedium, Mexipedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium and Selenipedium.

Native Flora Garden - more than 300 species, including ferns, trilliums, bloodroot, and lady slipper orchids.

One well-known example is the Purdon Conservation Area, which supports Canada's largest native colony of showy lady slipper orchids, some 16,000 plants.

As for the flora, several species of orchid grow in the nature reserve - for example, early purple orchid, greater butterfly orchid and lady slipper orchids.

This wetland ecosystem features sweet bay magnolias and other rare species of plants, including northern pitcher-plants, lady slipper orchids, sundews, and sphagnum moss.

It reminded me of a recent sort of shock when I returned to a particularly secret woodland spot where I knew there were scads of a magnificent treasures: regal lady slipper orchids.

Lady's slipper orchids (also known as lady slipper orchids or slipper orchids) are orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioideae, which includes the genera Cypripedium, Mexipedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium and Selenipedium.