Great Lakes region, USA. June 2026.
One of my favorite local wildflowers. They're quite common this time of spring. I hope I can find some pink ones this year.
Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium parviflorum)
Great Lakes region, USA. June 2026.
One of my favorite local wildflowers. They're quite common this time of spring. I hope I can find some pink ones this year.
6 Comments
Bipauler@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 76d
My mom has some kind of a drawing or painting of two of these flowers in the guest bathroom at her house. I've always looked at them instead of seeing slippers for a lady, had seen some sort of ladylike face wearing a head covering or mask of some sort and wrapped in some kind of a garment. I'll have to take a picture next time I'm over there of the artwork, but growing up I totally seen a person not some footwear lol
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
That's interesting. I don't see a face myself. I supposed because I've always known these as lady's slippers I've always seen that. The pink ones look like something else entirely, lol.
Bipauler@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 76d
Oh my 😳 lol
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 76d
Always had these in my childhood yard. Lol.
I think they are endangered.
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
They're not endangered near me. They just don't always show up. I see the yellow ones every year, while these pink ones are more elusive.
Bipauler@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 75d
I guess I always seen a female looking type on the top, and a male looking type on the bottom? With maybe a hood on top and maybe a mask or helmet on the bottom.
Yes, I'm a little weird, if you couldn't already tell :p
Or maybe my imagination was a little extra as a kid
Either way, when I found out they were slippers three decades later, it was shocking to me lol