Cypripedium acaule

[Cthulhu138]

Here are a few pics I took last year in the Sheepsfold, a reservation only about 2 miles from downtown Boston.
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[rapidan]

I need to take some photos of the ones I found a few years ago, if I remember to go there this year heh.

 

[jeff 2]

suite

oh magnifique

it is a specie to the pine and oak forest ?

acaule ? she have a stem no , strange her name

acaule in latin = without stem

their height?

 

[boxofrain]

perhaps the referance is to the plant itself, meaning the flower stalk is not a stem?