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Yellow Lady's Slippers Spring 2020 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2020) |
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Yellow Lady's Slippers Spring 2020 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2020) |
| I had found a few Yellow Lady's Slippers here in May 2019. Now I explored a wider area and found a lot more plants. I also discovered that both varieties of the species grow here. |
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| Greater (Large) Yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens) |
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| Lesser (Small) Yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum) |
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| A pair of Yellow Lady's Slippers. |
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| Greater Yellow Lady's Slipper |
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| Lesser Yellow Lady's Slipper |
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| Yellow Lady's Slipper. |
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| Greater Yellow Lady's Slipper |
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| Pair of Greater Yellow Lady's Slippers in hillside habitat |
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| I didn't see any large clumps; in fact, no groups of more than two plants... |
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| Greater Yellow Lady's Slipper |
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| Greater Yellow Lady's Slipper |
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| Another pair... |
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| There were a few other things to see besides the Lady's Slippers... |
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| The Vasey's Trilliums were looking a little ragged by this time. |
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| The Speckled Wood Lilies (Clintonia umbellulata) were still blooming nicely |
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| Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) |
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| Flower of Brook Lettuce, aka Lettuceleaf Saxifrage (Micranthes micranthidifolia) |