Cypripedium parviflorum
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| Cypripedium parviflorum | |
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| Greater Yellow Lady Slippers, var. makasin (Willd.) Knight on Mackinac Island, Michigan | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cypripedioideae |
| Tribe: | Cypripedieae |
| Subtribe: | Cypripediinae |
| Genus: | Cypripedium |
| Species: | C. parviflorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. | |
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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
- ↑ Voitk, A & M. (2006) Orchids on the Rock: The Orchids of Newfoundland, Rocky Harbour, NL: Gros Morne Co-operating Association.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cypripedium parviflorum, Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
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