| Cypripedium montanum Dougl. | |||
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| Family | Orchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae | ||
| Description | Stems glandular-pubescent, from stout rootstock; cauline leaves 3-5, glandular- pubescent; flowers 1-3 in axis of foliaceous bracts, sweet-scented; sepals green to purplish, lanceolate, the dorsal long-acuminate, the lateral united almost to apex; petals similar but linear-lanceolate, twisted; lip 2-3 cm long, white with purple veins; capsule ascending, oblong, 2-3 c¢cm long. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods. Described from northwest North America. |
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.