Cypripedium pubescens

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Cypripedium pubescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Cypripedioideae
Genus: Cypripedium
Species: C. pubescens
Binomial name
Cypripedium pubescens
Willd. (1804)
Synonyms
  • Cypripedium flavescens DC. (1803)
  • Cypripedium luteum var. pubescens (Willd.) Raf. (1828)
  • Cypripedium luteum var. angustifolium Raf. (1828)
  • Cypripedium luteum var. biflorum Raf. (1828)
  • Cypripedium luteum var. concolor Raf. (1828)
  • Cypripedium luteum var. glabrum Raf. (1828)
  • Cypripedium luteum var. grandiflorum Raf. (1828)
  • Cypripedium luteum var. maculatum Raf. (1828)
  • Cypripedium furcatum Raf. (1833)
  • Cypripedium undatum Raf. (1833)
  • Cypripedium assurgens Raf. (1833)
  • Cypripedium aureum Raf. (1833)
  • Cypripedium calceolus var. pubescens (Willd.) Correll (1938)
  • Cypripedium veganum Cockerell & Barker (1900)
  • Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens (Willd.) O.W. Knight (1906)
  • Cypripedium parviflorum var. planipetalum Fernald (1926)
  • Cypripedium planipetalum (Fernald) F.J.A. Morris (1929)
  • Cypripedium calceolus var. planipetalum (Fernald) Victorin & J. Rousseau (1940)

Cypripedium pubescens (Large yellow lady's slipper, Yellow moccasin-flower, Nerveroot, Noah's ark, American valerian, Whippoorwill's-shoe) is a yellow lady's-slipper orchid native to northern North America. It is sometimes considered a variety of the closely related Cypripedium parviflorum.

Height is 12–30 inches tall.

From Port aux Choix, Newfoundland and Labrador

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