Cypripedium fasciculatum

Büschelblütiger Lady's Slipper ( Cypripedium fasciculatum )

The Büschelblütige Lady's Slipper ( Cypripedium fasciculatum ) is a species of the genus Cypripedium in the orchid family ( Orchidaceae).

Features

The Büschelblütige Lady's Slipper is a perennial plant with a rhizome, the flourishing growth reaches heights from 6 to 35 inches. To fruit maturity, the inflorescence extends even higher. The two leaves are almost opposite, usually sit at or above the stem middle, are bare and measure 5 to 10 × 3.5 to 7 inches. They are round - oval shaped. The inflorescence consists of two to four or more flowers and is bent over to nodding. The petals are yellowish and - except for the less strongly drawn lip - purple-brown crowded. Except for the lip petals are lanceolate and measure 1 to 2.5 centimeters in length. The lip is striped yellow-green. At a size of 8 to 14, rarely up to 25 millimeters, it has an inlet opening 4-5 millimeters in diameter. The Staminodium is shaped oval to oblong.

Flowering time is from April to August.

Occurrence

The Büschelblütige woman shoe comes in temperate western North America in moist to dry, light coniferous forests at altitudes (0 to ) 900-1400 ( to 3200 ) meters in front.

Use

The Büschelblütige woman shoe is seldom used as an ornamental plant in woodland edges.

Documents

• Eckhart J. Hunter, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd Müller, K. (ed.): Excursion Flora of Germany. Founded by Werner Roth painter. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants, Springer, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8.
• Charles J. Sheviak: Cypripedium. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 26: Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales, Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford et al 2002, ISBN 0-19-515208-5, p 500, online at eFloras.org.