Cypripedium candidum Muhl ex Willd. 1805 SECTION Cypripedium SUBSECTION Cypripedium
Photos by Brian O'Brien
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Common Name Small White Lady's Slipper
Flower Size 3 1/2" [8.75 cm]
From Ontario west to the Dakotas and Nebraska and then south to Missouri and Kentucky in boggy meadows, this American terrestrial, cold growing orchid blooms in the spring on a short, terminal, solitary to rarely 2 flowered inflorescence that is subtended by a leaflike floral bract and carries slightly fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Calceolus candidus Nieuwl. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 6 1963 photo ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #10 1969 photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #5 1975 photofide; The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 6 1982 photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #1 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 1 1999 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 ; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 8 2004 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #3 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #1 2020 drawing fide
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