Species Orchid, Cypripedium, Queen's Lady's Slipper, Showy Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium reginae)

North America's largest-flowered orchid!


2006 Palm Sunday Orchid Show, Michigan

Showy Lady's Slipper Orchid, Queen's Lady's Slipper Cypripedium reginae

Showy Lady's Slipper Orchid, Queen's Lady's Slipper Cypripedium reginae

This is Minnesota's state flower, growing in Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden & Bird Sanctuary in the middle of Minneapolis


Cypripedium reginae

I have no troubles with this plant - it has doubled in size each year until it reached this size...Great plant!




Cypripedium reginae in the wild. Purdon Conservation Area, Ontario, June 25, 2009.

Showy Lady's Slipper Orchid, Queen's Lady's Slipper Cypripedium reginae


Garden grown in Walker, MN.

Cypripedium reginaea and Aquilegia vulgaris "Nivea" in May 2011 in my garden

Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Copyright of Rogier van Vugt, the Head Gardener at the greenhouses at Leiden University and at Hortus botanicus Leiden, from Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Copyright John Lonsdale, owner of Edgewood Gardens, PA. https://edgewoodgardens.net/

Copyright John Lonsdale, owner of Edgewood Gardens, PA. https://edgewoodgardens.net/

Copyright John Lonsdale, owner of Edgewood Gardens, PA. https://edgewoodgardens.net/

Copyright John Lonsdale, owner of Edgewood Gardens, PA. https://edgewoodgardens.net/

Copyright John Lonsdale, owner of Edgewood Gardens, PA. https://edgewoodgardens.net/
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Species Orchid, Cypripedium, Queen's Lady's Slipper, Showy Lady's Slipper
Cypripedium reginae
Type: | Perennials |
Height: | 6-36 in. | 15-90 cm |
Conditions: | Zone 3-8, Light Shade |