California Lady's Slipper

[GardenTheater]

Those are real cuties. Love the chubby lips. They drew me in to read your blog.

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks, Garden. Appreciate your looking up the blog, too.

[RosieC]

Wow great pictures Ron. Those are some really wonderful plants you found.

I've missed a lot of your posts over the summer, well missed a lot of OB over the summer. I was trying to catch up for a while but just getting further behind so gave up. But I'm taking a look through missed posts of yours now. I know they are always worth a look

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks for the kind words, Rosie. I'm way behind, too, on OB, and don't know when I'm going to catch up.

[ron-in-norcal]

Originally Posted by ronaldhanko

One of our rarest and most unusual native Slippers:



Many more pictures and a lot more information here:
Native Orchids of the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies: California Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium californicum)

Wow, I've always wanted to see one of those Cyp. californicum! Thanks for photographing them. I grew Cypripedium reginae in my garden in Petaluma, where it did really well (somewhat surprisingly well, actually). Thanks for posting the photo!

[ronaldhanko]

Welcome to OB, Ron, and I hope you get a chance to see these slippers in the native haunts.