Cypripedium fasciculatum Kellogg ex S. Watson 1882 SECTION Enantiopetalum

Plant ensitu Colorado Photo courtesy of Nile and Lois Dusdieker

Another Plant Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

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Common Name Clustered Lady's Slipper

Flower Size About 2" [about 5 cm]

A western American, medium sized orchid found in moist or dry coniferous forests in acid soils between 800 and 1700 meters with elliptic, plicate, opposite, pubescent beneath leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, slender stalked, fasciculate inflorescence that carries up to 4 clustered flowers each subtended by a leaflike floral bract and all arising from the center and being held well above the almost mature 2 opposing leaves held high on a stem and is a cold to cool growing terrestrial.

Synonyms Cypripedium knightiae A. Nelson 1906; Cypripedium pusillum Rolfe 1892; Cypripedium wilsonii Rolfe 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen #4 13-16 tafel 5 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 3 1995 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 9 2007 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 3 2007 photo;

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