Cypripedium parviflorum

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Cypripedium parviflorum
Greater Yellow Lady Slippers, var. makasin (Willd.) Knight on Mackinac Island, Michigan
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C. parviflorum
Binomial name
Cypripedium parviflorum
Salisb.
Synonyms
  • Cypripedium luteum var. parviflorum (Salisb.) Raf.
  • Criosanthes parviflora (Salisb.) Raf.
  • Calceolus parviflorus (Salisb.) Nieuwl.
  • Cypripedium calceolus var. parviflorum (Salisb.) Fernald

Cypripedium parviflorum, commonly known as Yellow Lady's Slipper, Mocassin Flower,[1] or Hairy Yellow Ladyslipper[2] is a Lady's Slipper orchid found in North America.

Cypripedium parviflorum is a highly variable species across its range with hybridization known. Variety pubescens[2] is sometimes treated as a separate species, Cypripedium pubescens. This taxon has larger flowers with sepals unmarked, spotted, or striped as opposed to uniformly dark.

References

  1. ^ Voitk, A & M. (2006) Orchids on the Rock: The Orchids of Newfoundland, Rocky Harbour, NL: Gros Morne Co-operating Association.
  2. ^ a b Cypripedium parviflorum, Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador

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