Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cypripedium reginae
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Cypripedium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cypripedium reginae
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-01-003:
Cypripedium reginae
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
COMMON NAME:
Showy Lady's Slipper, Queen Lady's Slipper
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cyre6_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_cyre6_010_lvd
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Jeff Ausmus jma_cypreg2
June Ogemaw County MI
Rifle River Recreation Area
Pouch-like lip of flower pink and white (rarely all white), per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Jeff Ausmus jma_cypreg3
June Monroe County MI
In cultivation
Lateral petals and dorsal sepal white, not twisted, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Jeff Ausmus jma_cypreg5
June Ogemaw County MI
Rifle River Recreation Area
Each plant usually with 3-7 leaves, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Jeff Ausmus jma_cypreg6
June Ogemaw County MI
Rifle River Recreation Area
The plant is glandular-hirsute throughout, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Jeff Ausmus jma_cypreg7
June Ogemaw County MI
Rifle River Recreation Area
Leaves 1-24cm long, 6-15cm wide, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Jeff Ausmus jma_cypreg8
June Ogemaw County MI
Rifle River Recreation Area
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Jim Fowler jafcypreginae_1050710
July Manitoba, Canada
Sepals are white, round-oval, 1.2-1.8" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Jim Fowler jafcypreginae_2050710
July Manitoba, Canada
Petals white, spreading, narrowly oblong. Lip is a white-streaked rose pouch, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Jeff Ausmus jma_cypreg
August Mackinac County MI
Sault Ste Marie State Forest Area: Brevort Township
Capsule ellipsoid, 3-4.5cm long and about 1.5cm in diameter, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cypripedium reginae
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cypripedium reginae
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-01-003:
Cypripedium reginae
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
2293
Forb
Perennial
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia (doubtfully to NC)
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare
Look for it over circumneutral to basic rocks, or (allegedly) in mossy wet forests under Rhododendron, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White/Mauve
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
3 petals, the two lateral similar and a third (the lip) enlarged
stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p174
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p046
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p394
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p452
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p022