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lady's-slipper

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lady's-slipper, a wild orchid orchid, popular name for members of the Orchidaceae, a family of perennial herbs widely distributed in both hemispheres. The unusually large family (of some 450 genera and an estimated 10,000 to 17,500 species) includes terrestrial, epiphytic (see epiphyte), and
..... Click the link for more information. ; the name is sometimes applied also to impatiens.
lady's-slipper
any of various orchids of the Eurasian genus Cypripedium, esp C. calceolus, having reddish or purple flowers


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Lessard said, "My dad told me that to pick a lady's-slipper is like killing a mockingbird.
Rare flower growing in path of bulldozers by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Occurrences of rare or uncommon species include small white lady's-slipper (Cypripedium candidum), small yellow lady's slipper (C.
A brief survey of the rare terrestrial natural communities and ... by Homoya, Michael A. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
In this country alone, the lady's-slipper orchid now only exists in the wild in one location in Northamptonshire and the beautiful and rare oxlip can only be found wild in five woods in East Anglia.
Letter: Seed of destruction by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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