Orchid - Pink Lady Slipper - Cypripedium acaule - Wildflowers 101 - Episode 9 

Orchid - Pink Lady Slipper - Cypripedium acaule - Wildflowers 101 - Episode 9
Pink Lady Slipper Nicknames:
Moccasin Flower
Slipper Flower
Pouch Flower
Pink Lady Slippers is in the Orchid Family. It is a Perennial and Herbaceous
Perennials: return year after year, blooming in the second season and for many years to come.
They grow more slowly, and in the first season focus most energy on establishing strong roots, so they typically don't bloom until their second year.
Herbaceous: Herbaceous plants are plants that have non-woody stems, including grasses, sedges, rushes, ferns, and forbs.
Forbs are broad-leaf plants often referred to as wildflowers or weeds. Annual herbaceous plants live for only one year, whereas perennials live for multiple years.
Spring Flowers Bloom ~ Late May - June sometimes July
Showy and Beautiful Flowers
Color:
Pink
Deep Pink
Deep Rose
Rose White
Rarely all White
Irregular Flowers ~ are flowers with petals that are not uniform in size or shape, not equal parts.
Flower looks like a Large Pouch with a Sack like Lower Lip
1-2-1/2" Long ~ Hollow Pouch. Cleft in the Center.
Cleft Flowers ~ Deeply Cut
Sweet Smelling
Solitary Flower can find growing close to each other
Sepals similar to Color of the Petals broader with the two lateral fused behind the slipper, the third forming a hood above it.
A leaf-like bract, green and bristly, about the same size as sepals ascends up and forward over the thickened ovary and upper sepal.
Sepals ~ each of the parts of the calyx of a flower, enclosing the petals and typically green and leaflike.
Fruit ~ are Capsules, ripen when brown. Each contains 1000's of tiny seeds.
Leaves are Green ~ Large and Broad ~ 3-1/2-9" Long ~ 1-3-1/2" Wide
2 Large Basal Leaves ~
Basal ~ Leaves occurring in a tight cluster or rosette at the base of the plant.
Entire Leaves ~
Margins without teeth or serrations. The term entire refers to leaves that are neither toothed, lobed, or compound, i.e. simple with smooth margins.
Leaves have Parallel Veins ~ having veins arranged nearly parallel to one another.
Stem ~ Single Green Stem supports the Flower. Has finely bristly hairs.
Grows 6-20" High
Takes many years for the Pink Lady Slipper to go from Seed to Mature Plant. It can live 20+ Years.
Roots ~ Thick and Fibrous
Fibrous Root is a true root, usually formed by a thin, network of branching roots of equal diameter.
This network of roots consists of many branching roots that emerge from the base of the stem and do not arise as branches of the primary root.
Habitat:
Woodlands
Usually grows near Oaks and Pines
Likes acidic Soil
Grows in Dry or Moist Soil that is well drained
They have a Symbiotic relationship with Fungus that provided the plant with Nutrients.
Symbiotic plants, or the process of symbiosis, is when two plants live closely together in harmony of one kind or another.
There are four types of symbiosis - mutualism, parasitism, commensalism,
and endosymbiosis/ectosymbiosis. The word 'symbiosis' comes from the Greek words for 'with' and 'living'.
Pollinators:
Bees
Pollinating Insects
Pink Lady Slippers do not have Nectar. The insect fly's/crawls in and gets trapped and it has only one way out.
Collecting Lady Slippers is discouraged.
Native to New England.
Hope you have a chance to get out and enjoy this lovely flower from Late May- June/July
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Wildflowers 101
New Series
Episode 9
Pink Lady Slipper
Lady Slippers
Massachusetts Lady Slippers
New England Lady Slippers
Cypripedium acaule
Lady Slipper Orchids
Pink Orchids
Massachusetts Orchids
New England Orchids
Orchids
How to Identify Wildflowers
How to Identify Lady Slippers
How to Identify Pink Lady Slippers
How to Identify Orchids
Moccasin Flower
Slipper Flower
Pouch Flower
Woodland Plants
Massachusetts Wildflowers
Northeast Wildflowers
New England Wildflowers
Wildflowers
Pink Flower
Orchid
Showy Wildflower
Spring Wildflowers
Native Wildflowers to Massachusetts
Native Wildflowers to New England
Spring Flowers
Exploring Wildflowers
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Goat Hill Lock
Blackstone Heritage Corridor
Blackstone Valley
Uxbridge Ma
Uxbridge Mass
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