Yellow Lady's Slipper
Cypripedium parviflorum
Orchid family (Orchidaceae)
These lovely, dainty plants grow singly or in clusters and scatter themselves widely over areas that they find habitable. The plants are often short and are often buried in grasses and other greenery; finding them is difficult -- unless their large, bright, lustrous flowers are open. The exotic looking flowers are also very sweet smelling. These Colorado rare and endangered plants are a delight to find, and, of course, if you ever do find them, take your pleasure only in photographing them and sitting and admiring them. To try to transplant them is to doom them to extinction. Linnaeus named this in 1753. "Cypripedium" is Greek for "Venus' foot" and "" is Latin for "small flower."
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