Photos of Calypso-bulbosa-~-fairy-slipper-orchid

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Calypso bulbosa ~ fairy slipper orchid

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Calypso-bulbosa-~-fairy-slipper-orchid


Characteristics:

  • FACW

  • Michigan C Value: 10

  • mostly mesic coniferous forests

  • white cedar groves

  • old beach dune ridges under conifers near the shores of the Great Lakes

  • usually somewhat shaded

  • lip is strongly lined with deep purplish, spotted toward the white apron and yellow apical beard

  • single smooth oval leaf 0.75 to 1.25 inches wide, 1 to 2.25 inches long, on slender stem from an underground bulb like base

  • leaf flares openly out over the ground, pleated along parallel veins and wrinkled across surface and edges

  • solitary basal leaf in the autumn, which overwinters and then senesces soon after flowering

  • solitary flower on short stalk

  • petite native orchid; State Listed as Threatened in Michigan



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