Cypripedium × alaskanum
Lady's-Slipper
Cypripedium calceolus
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- Botanical name
- Cypripedium calceolus
- Also known as
- Lady's Slipper Orchid, Lady's-Slipper, Lady's-Slipper Orchid
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Cypripedium
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Lady's-Slipper
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Cypripedium calceolus but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Calceolus alternifolius
Calceolus marianus
Cypripedilon marianus
Cypripedium alternifolium
Cypripedium atsmori
Cypripedium boreale
Cypripedium calceolus f. grandifolium
Cypripedium calceolus f. triflorum
Cypripedium calceolus prol. biflorum
Cypripedium calceolus var. bellum
Cypripedium calceolus var. biflorum
Cypripedium calceolus var. citrina
Cypripedium calceolus var. citrinum
Cypripedium calceolus var. viridiflora
Cypripedium calceolus var. viridiflorum
Cypripedium cruciatum
Cypripedium ferrugineum
Cypripedium guttatum subsp. microsaccos
Cypripedium microsaccos
Others in Cypripedium
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