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Dickinson's lady's slipper

Cypripedium dickinsonianum

Also called Dickinson's Cypripedium

Dickinson's lady's slipper
Photo: Moises Béhar, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
Mexico (S. Chiapas) to Guatemala
Climate
wet tropical

About

Cypripedium dickinsonianum is a species of orchid known as Dickinson's lady's slipper or Dickinson's cypripedium after American orchidist Stirling Dickinson.

Where it grows

It ranges from Southern Chiapas State, Mexico into Guatemala inhabiting open grassy slopes with shallow seeps on south facing hills in juniper woodlands at elevations of 1,000 to 1,450 meters.

Other Cypripedium plants

Pink lady's slipper · Ram's head lady's slipper · Lady's-slipper orchid · California lady's slipper · White 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 dickinsonianum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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