#lady's-slipper orchid

[thebotanicalarcade]

n820_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz.. Gera,Zezschwitz,1903-. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12306754

[hankwag93]

Some shots of greater yellow lady’s slipper orchids from a hike on 6/2/23.

[geopsych]

Pink lady slippers, Cypripedium acaule. They’re even more interesting now that I have a few tropical slipper orchids!

I’ve taken so many pictures of native wildflowers in the last few weeks and posted very few. Just take my word for it: they’re still out there. 🌿🌸

[headspace-hotel]

The wonders! The wonders! The wonders!

[thewillowoaklady]

Pink lady slipper orchid

[vandaliatraveler]

The photos above are from a trek to the summit of Bald Knob in Tucker County, West Virginia earlier today. Bald Knob Trail starts in Canaan Valley State Park and crosses into the Monongahela National Forest before returning to the state park. Many people avoid the steep ascent on foot and take a chair lift from the adjacent ski area instead. I manned up today and made the ascent by foot so I could beat the lazy tourists to the overlook. 

From top: the view from Bald Knob toward Weiss Knob and the Canaan Valley State Park ski area; wild geranium (Geranium maculatum), a clumping woodland perennial with gorgeous violet-purple foliage and elegant, sharply-lobed foliage; minniebush (Menziesia pilosa), an Appalachian endemic with distinctive, white-tipped leaves; painted trillium (Trillium undulatum), which has a fondness for shady spots in the strongly-acidic soils of old forests; pink lady’s slipper (Cypripedium acaule), another lover of shady nooks and strongly-acidic soils; and the mysterious depths of the boreal forest at the summit, where Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) and yellow Clintonia (Clintonia borealis), also known as bluebead lily, form dense colonies in the rich humus.

[mostlythemarsh]

Oh it's much too early for Lady Slippers... but soon enough. Here's a seed head from last year that's still standing.

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Showy Lady’s Slipper Cypripedium reginae Orchidaceae

Photographs taken on June 18, 2023, at Purdon Conservation Area, Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada.

[dailybotany]

Any chance you could tell me something about this plant?

Found it while hiking in Vermont (in the wooded area around a pond)

Yes! That is a pink ladies slipper (Cypripedium acaule), one of our showiest orchids. In New England, we are just passing the height of their flowering period and they will begin to die back (their two basal leaves stick around for most of the summer though!).

You may have heard about the importance of fungal mutualisms for orchid species, and pink ladies slippers are no exception. These relationships are so crucial to orchids because (unlike most seed plants) their seeds essentially consist of the embryo and the seed coat and are only viable for a short period of time--no store of energy for those babies! This means the parent plant has to put very little energy into their production, but it also means that these embryos are very vulnerable. Mycorrhizal fungi can penetrate the seed cost without damaging the embryo and can provide nutrients for it, essentially nursing the orchid. This is a mutualism because later, once the orchid is grown, it provides a similar service to the fungi.

Pink ladies slippers rely on the presence of fungi in the genus Rhizoctonia for this vital part of their life cycle.

You can read more about this wonderful and charismatic plant here!

[wherethewildorchidgrows]

Showy Ladyslippers - by Clelia Costa

[thiswillnotdo]

2023_01_26

[designs-by-sloan]

Wildflowers

Originally drawn in 2022, but I wanted to try giving them a pretty pastel-vintage colour palette~

Artwork © 2024 Sloan || Do not use without permission, no A/I or N/FTs allowed. Check my carrd for my social media / and commission info! Also available as merch on my redbubble shop.  

[eunnuiphyte]

Lady Slipper orchid 👠

ID: Paphiopedilum sp.

[peeparoni]

this month for the October famous challenge im going with a new scientific type of illustration everyday, this species is commonly know as lady-slipper orchid 🫶

[teacupchimera]

moose skull with lady slipper orchids, suggested by my mom! I offer these as commissions for $25, message me if you're interested! :D

please reblog if you enjoy <3

[thewillowoaklady]

Lady slipper orchid