| Cypripedium passerinum Richards. | |||
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| Family | Orchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae | ||
| Description | Stems from stout, dark rootstock; cauline leaves 3—4, viscid-pubescent on both sides; flowers 1-3, mostly solitary, fragrant; bract foliaceous; sepals about 1.5 cm long, pubescent on outer surface, the lateral free almost to base or nearly united to apex; petals yellowish-green, the upper green on outside, obtuse; lip about 2 cm long, yellowish-green to pale magenta, more or less purple-spotted inside; capsule elliptical, erect, 2-3 cm long. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, bogs. Described from Alberta and Saskatchewan. |
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.