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Pink Lady's Slipper "Moccasin Flower" Orchidaceae (Orchid Family) Description General - a perennial orchid emerging from thickened roots; displaying 2 basal leaves and a large, showy flower on an erect stalk, growing 20 - 30 cm tall.
Flowers - solitary; pink (sometimes white) with reddish veins to greenish-brown; lip large, inflated into showy pounch, cleft on the upper side; single green bract arching forward from the stalk over the flower;appearing early summer. Fruit -ascending brown capsules under the floral bract with thousands of tiny seeds; developing thoughout midsummer. Habitat Infrequent but adaptable; in bogs, open woods, sand dunes; in dry/fresh, jackpine and black spruce forests on sandy and coarse loamy soils. Notes Similar species are Cypripedium calceolus Yellow Lady's Slipper and Cypripedium reginae Showy Lady's Slipper, with white and pink flowers.
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Leaves - simple; 2 basal leaves at stem base, large (10 - 20 cm long), almost opposite; elliptic, tapering to a pointed tip, sparsely hairy, with conspicuous parallel veins.