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Synonym:
Cypripedium
calceolus.
Cypripedium
parviflorum. (Lady's Slipper Orchid) Blooming information withheld to protect the plants. These lovely, dainty plants grow singly or in clusters and scatter themselves widely over areas that they find habitable. As the picture shows, the plants are short and are often buried in grasses and other greenery; finding them is difficult -- unless their large, bright, lustrous flowers are open. The exotic looking flowers are also very sweet smelling. These Colorado rare and endangered plants are a delight to find, and, of course, if you ever do find them, take your pleasure only in photographing them and sitting and admiring them. To try to transplant them is to doom them to extinction. And sad to say, to tell friends the location of these rare plants is also to doom the plants to extinction. Linnaeus named this genus in 1753 and considered it an Orchid. William Weber, following Hulten's 1968 work, maintains that on the basis of floral structures, these plants should not be classified as Orchids. Synthesis of the North American Flora, the on-line USDA Plants Data Base, and the on-line Flora of North America continue to place this plant in the Orchid Family. "Cypripedium" is Greek for "Venus' foot" and "calceolus" is Latin for "little shoe". "Parviflorum" is Latin for "small flower". |
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Synonym:
Cypripedium
calceolus.
Cypripedium
parviflorum. (Lady's Slipper Orchid) |
