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Cypripedium californicum
A native North American lady's slipper orchid that forms large clumps, with stems up to about a meter tall bearing many flowers with a white pouch. It grows wild in cool, moist woodland streamsides in a very restricted area of SW Oregon and N California, and is rarely grown in gardens.
Cypripedium californicum, the California lady's slipper, is a member of the orchid genus Cypripedium, the lady's slipper orchids, native to the western United States.
it has a very restricted range and can only be found in the mountains of southwestern Oregon (including the Kalmiopsis Wilderness) and northern California. It prefers the margins of woodland streams in open coniferous forests.
Pink lady's slipper · Ram's head lady's slipper · Lady's-slipper orchid · White lady's-slipper · Dickinson's lady's slipper · Elegant Cypripedium · Clustered lady's slipper · Yellow Cypripedium · Formosa's lady's slipper · Franchet's Cypripedium · Spotted lady's slipper · Henry's Cypripedium
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cypripedium californicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
