aka: Moccasin Flower
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| Cypripedium acaule Orchid family - Orchidaceae |
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| Something is eating the moccasins this year. |
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| Pink lady's slipper takes ten years from germination to flower , so please do not pick. It's a perennial so it will bloom in the same place every year... if conditions are right. This year the rains were late so the flower stalks are rather short. |
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| Habitat: conifer mixed woods, jack pine and black spruce |
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| The slipper stays a very pale green until it completes its growth. One year I found a place where I could stand and count 85 Moccasin flowers - I called it the "shoe factory". |
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| Getting better at close-ups |
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| Colours are at their peak |
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| This is two days from their last photo when they were still on the green side. June 7, 2012 |
June 10, 2012
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| Bright pink today |
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| The eye is peeking under the green leaf. |
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| June 12, 2012 |
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| June 12, 2012 |
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| June 17, 2012 |
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| June 22, 2012 |
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| June 24, 2012 starting to droop. |
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| June 28, 2012 |
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| Taken about twenty years ago with a 35mm camera. All photos on this particular film came out very green. Never happened before and never happened again. Moccasin surrounded by Canada Mayflowers. |
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| June 28, 2012 One Moccasin that has set and is forming a seed head. |
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