Two Red River Gorge orchids, the pink lady slipper, Cypripedium acaule, and the yellow lady slipper, Cypripedium parviflorum, trick their bee pollinators. Bees are attracted to them because of ...

The pink lady’s slipper (Cypripedium acaule) is the most frequent of our slippers, but that’s not to say it is common and widespread.Nearly all records come from the hill country of ...

Flowers have always made a big impression on me. I remember coming across a clump of lady-slipper orchids while we lived in Hingham, Mass., even though I must have been about 2 years old at the time.

While Cypripedium acaule do sometimes live near the coast, they don’t really qualify as subject matter for this column. However, their homonym, Crepidula fornicata, makes its home along the shore.

A: Ellen Honeycutt, board chair of the Georgia Native Plant Society, says: “Pink lady’s slipper (Cypripedium acaule) is an uncommon native orchid that is vulnerable to pressures associated ...

Perhaps the most spectacular group of Ohio orchids are the lady’s slippers in the genus Cypripedium. Four species occur, one of which, the pink lady’s slipper, is the subject of this column.