SHOWY LADYSLIPPER 
Cypripedium reginae Walter 
The showy ladyslipper is considered by many to be the most beau- 
tiful of our native species of Cypripedium. It loves peat bogs ot low 
wet woods; thus only those willing to meet the difficulties of tramp- 
ing in such places are rewarded by finding the shy beauty. Its flowers 
ate also the largest of the North American ladyslippers, and it may 
have one or more blossoms to crown its leafy stem. The State of 
Minnesota has chosen the showy ladyslipper as its State flower, and 
it was the first of the States to adopt such an emblem. 
The plant has a rather wide distribution, occurring from Georgia 
to Minnesota and northward to Newfoundland and Ontario. 
The plant sketched was obtained by Mr. Edwin Hale Lincoln 
neat Lenox, Massachusetts. 
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