PINK LADY’S SLIPPER                     PINK

Cypripedium acaule                   May-June

Orchid Family

Flower:  2.5” long

Plant:  6-15” high

    Borne singly on a leafless stalk, this pink, slipper-like flower has an inflated petal which is veined with red and indented down the middle.  The sepals and side petals are greenish-brown and spreading.  Arising from the base of the plant are 2 large, oval leaves, up to 8” long.

 

    Look for this Orchid in acid woods, oak and pine forests, and bogs.  It is sometimes called Moccasin Flower and also Stemless Orchid, the latter due to the fact that the leaves appear to rise from the root and not from the plant stem.

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