| Cypripedium guttatum Sw. | |||
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| Family | Orchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae | ||
| Description | Stems from long, slender rootstock, with 2 leaves at about the middle and 2-3 clasping sheaths at base; flowers subtended by foliaceous bract, solitary, blotched with purple; lateral petals ovate, tapering to blunt apex; lip as long as the elliptical dorsal sepal, or shorter. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, woods. Described from eastern Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The color of the flower is highly variable, on the coast, where the population is considered to be an introgression between subsp. guttatum and subsp. Yatabeanum. Flowers can be nearly white, pinkish, blotched with greenish-purple, or purple; collection localities of specimens thus flowered are marked with open circles on the Alaskan map. Broken line on maps indicates range of forms more or less interme- diate between subsp. guttatum and subsp. Yatabeanum. (See color section.) |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.