ladyslipper

Pink ladyslipper Cypripedium acaule is one of the few orchid species that has managed to survive in NYC.

Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011

Pink ladyslipper Cypripedium acaule is one of the few orchid species that has managed to survive in NYC.

Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011

Pink ladyslipper Cypripedium acaule is one of the few orchid species that has managed to survive in NYC.

Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011

Pink ladyslipper Cypripedium acaule is one of the few orchid species that has managed to survive in NYC.

Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011

Since 1990, Staten Island, the most bucolic borough, has lost more than 30% of its indigenous vegetation, including such botanical treasures as nodding trillium and yellow ladyslipper orchid.

Marielle Anzelone: More Than the Million Trees, Where Is Nature in PlaNYC? Marielle Anzelone 2010

The ladyslipper on the right is an alien in disguise.

Fun with the macro lens 2009

Showy ladyslipper, Cypripedium reginae, is an example of a unique plant that thrives in fens.

Fens 2008

Corn waving on the moorlands where naught but horsetail grew before, blue bells nodding on the fells, and yellow sunlight blazing in the ladyslipper flowers outside a house.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

It looks cool, like a ladyslipper or a corner of the hayloft.

Songs of the Humpback Whale Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 1992

For years and years she had planted flowers --- tulips and hyacinths and poppies and lilies and gladiolus and larkspur and phlox and ladyslipper -- there had always been a riot of color.

The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey