Showy Lady's Slipper
Cypripedium reginae
Summary 7
The Showy Lady's-slipper (Cypripedium reginae), also known as the Pink-and-white Lady's-slipper or the Queen's Lady's-slipper, is a rare, terrestrial, temperate, lady's-slipper orchid native to northern North America.
Description 8
Plants erect, 21–90 cm. Leaves 3–9, along length of stem, alternate, ascending to spreading; blade broadly elliptic to ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 10–27 × 5–16 cm. Flowers 1–3(–4); sepals white; dorsal sepal suborbiculate to ovate-orbiculate, 25–45 × 18–42 mm; lateral sepals connate, synsepal 24–42 × 15–37 mm; petals spreading, same color as sepals, oblong to elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, flat, 25–47 × 6–17 mm; lip white, usually suffused around orifice and variably beyond with pale pink to crimson magenta, subglobose-obovoid, 25–53 mm; orifice basal, 18–28 mm; staminode cordiform-ovoid to ovoid-lanceoloid. 2n = 20.
Distribution 9
Global Range: Cypripedium reginae has an extensive range throughout much of eastern North America. The species is found from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and eastern Saskatchewan south to Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and North Dakota.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Brett Whaley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/brettwhaley/18800086774/
- (c) Ryan LeBlanc, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/ryan_leblanc/7397540904/
- (c) NC Orchid, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/ncorchid/45911824/
- (c) Dan and Raymond, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/nativeorchids/1067605999/
- (c) Malcolm Manners, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/mmmavocado/3757131066/
- (c) Ottawa County Parks, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/115941663@N04/14391168481/
- Adapted by bpff from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypripedium_reginae
- (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/5018058
- (c) NatureServe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/28970479
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- eFloras.org
- Flora of North America (beta)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Go Botany
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- Maryland Biodiversity Project
- NatureServe Explorer 2.0
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- USDA PLANTS database
- VASCAN by Canadensys
- World Flora Online
