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Showy Lady's Slipper

Cypripedium reginae

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Field Notes

Description:

A brightly colored orchid. White petals sit on top of a white pouch streaked with pink. Hairy oval leaves clasp the stem.

Habitat:

The lady's slipper grows in spruce and tamarack bogs, swamps, wet meadows and cool, damp woods.

Notes:

Hundreds of orchids spotted on Hwy 29 along Pine Lake.

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Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge
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PublishedJune 17, 2016

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