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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cypripedium kentuckiense
FAMILY
Orchidaceae
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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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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
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p115
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p392
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p451
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