Cypripedium montanum |
Cypripedium passerinum |
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mountain lady slipper, mountain lady's-slipper, white lady's-slipper |
Franklin's lady's-slipper, northern lady's-slipper, sparrow's-egg lady's-slipper, sparrowegg lady's slipper, spotted lady's-slipper |
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Habit | Plants erect, 25–71 cm. | Plants erect, 12–38[–50] cm. |
Leaves | 4–6, inserted toward base or scattered along stem, alternate, erect, ascending, or spreading; blade suborbiculate or broadly ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 3.3–17 × 2.5–9.5 cm. |
3–7, along length of stem, alternate, ascending to spreading; blade elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 5–19 × 1.5–6 cm. |
Flowers | 1–3; sepals greenish, suffused, often heavily, with reddish brown or madder, or rarely clear green; dorsal sepal lance-acuminate to elliptic-lance-acuminate, 33–60 × 8–16 mm; lateral sepals connate; synsepal 30–60 × 6–18 mm; petals spreading-deflexed, same color as sepals, spirally twisted, linear to linear-lanceolate, 36–77 × 3–5 mm; lip white, rarely suffused with magenta, obovoid or oblance-ovoid to oblance-fusiform, 19–33 mm; orifice basal, 13–22 mm; staminode lanceoloid to broadly ovoid or ellipsoid-ovoid. |
1(–2); sepals white or green; dorsal sepal suborbiculate to obovate-orbiculate, rarely elliptic, 11–20 × (7–)9–15 mm; lateral sepals connate to nearly distinct, 6–12 mm, segments 3–6 mm wide; synsepal 6–15 mm wide; petals spreading, white, oblong to linear-elliptic, flat, 12–20 × 3–6 mm; lip white, rarely pinkish, obovoid, 11–20 mm; orifice basal but often proportionally very large, 9–13 mm; staminode cordiform-ovoid to ovoid-oblong. 2n = 20. |
Cypripedium montanum |
Cypripedium passerinum |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Sep. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Mesic to dry (rarely wet) coniferous, deciduous, and broadleaf evergreen forests, openings, and thickets, around shrubs on open slopes | Moist coniferous forests, thickets, openings, tundra, especially in coarse soils of terraces and stream banks |
Elevation | 0–2400 m (0–7900 ft) | 0–2200 m (0–7200 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC
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AK; MT; AB; BC; MB; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT
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Discussion | Plants of Cypripedium montanum grown in exposed, relatively sunny situations have the ascending leaves inserted along the basal portion of the stem and the flowers displayed well above the leaves. In shadier, especially sheltered sites, the spreading leaves may be more evenly scattered along the stem. In this species the apical margin of the orifice of the lip is usually acute, in common with C. candidum, and in contrast to the usually obtuse margin in C. parviflorum; this difference can aid determination of discolored herbarium specimens. Hybrids of C. montanum and C. parviflorum have been designated C. ×columbianum Sheviak. See 11. C. parviflorum for a general discussion of hybridization and variation within and between related species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 504. | FNA vol. 26, p. 503. |
Parent taxa | Orchidaceae > subfam. Cypripedioideae > Cypripedium | Orchidaceae > subfam. Cypripedioideae > Cypripedium |
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Synonyms | C. passerinum var. minganense | |
Name authority | Douglas ex Lindley: Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl., 528. (1840) | Richardson: in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea, 762. (1823) |
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