General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 12 - 36 inches
Plant Spread: 12 - 18 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Other info: does not transplant
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Other: Difficult to transplant or divide.
Miscellaneous: Endangered

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Common names
  • Lesser Yellow Lady's Slipper
  • Yellow Lady's-Slipper Orchid
  • Yellow Lady's Slipper

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Photo by foraygardengirl
Location: Minnesota 
Date: June
Location: Caribou Maine
Date: June 2018
Photo by threegardeners
Location: Darwell Rolling Woods, Alberta
Date: 2007-05-10
Photo by mistyfog
Location: Caribou Maine
Date: June 2018
Location: Colorado
Date: 06/17/2021
photo by Ed Ogle via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/157458
Location: East garden
Date: May 2015
Location: East garden
Date: May 2015

Date: c. 1925
illustration from Walcott's 'North American Wild Flowers', 1925

photo credit: Orchi

Photo: Dan Benefield
Location: Ontario, Canada Zone 5a
Date: 2008-05-31
May
Photo by mistyfog
Location: East garden
Date: May 2015
Location: East garden
Date: May 2015
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id by bamira Aug 15, 2015 8:09 AM 2
Should this be cypripedium parviflorum/Lesser Yellow Lady's Slipper? by foraygardengirl Dec 16, 2015 6:51 PM 8

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