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| | Showy Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium Reginae), Rock Garden Lecture Plant Sale. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The showy lady's slipper is Minnesota's state flower. |
 | | The lady's slipper grows in spruce and tamarack bogs, swamps, wet meadows, wet prairies, and cool, damp woods. |
 | | Lady Slippers is a term used to describe the orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioidea, which includes the genera Cypripedium, Mexipedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium and Selenipedium, distinguished by their slipper-shaped pouches (modified labellums), which function by trapping insects so that they are forced to climb up past the staminode, behind which they collect or deposit pollinia. |
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