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 or 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 

 are 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 

 near Lenox, Massachusetts. 



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