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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cypripedium kentuckiense   FAMILY Orchidaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cypripedium kentuckiense   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cypripedium kentuckiense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

Cypripedium kentuckiense

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Cypripedium calceolus var. pubescens

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cypripedium pubescens

 

COMMON NAME:
Kentucky Yellow Lady's Slipper


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image of Cypripedium kentuckiense, Kentucky Yellow Lady's Slipper

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_kentuckiense

May        

Purple-brown sepals & twisted petals; the lip a creamy to dull yellow pouch, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cypripedium kentuckiense   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cypripedium kentuckiense   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cypripedium kentuckiense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Cypripedium kentuckiense

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Cypripedium calceolus var. pubescens

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cypripedium pubescens

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3630

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Sandy ravine bottoms and springhead seeps along small streams, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Spring
Cream/ Pale yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
3 petals, the two lateral similar and a third (the lip) enlarged
Stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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