For the first time I looked down on the moccasin flower or pink lady-slipper (Cypripedium acaule), the largest of our native orchids. For a long time I hung over the flower.

The lip, often shaped like a shoe, inspired the names “lady’s-slipper,” “fairyslipper” and “moccasin flower.” Many orchids contain a nectar-producing spur and emit a sweet fragrance.

BOISE, Idaho — Orchids are spectacular flowers, but most of us find them pretty hard to grow. We’ll talk to an orchid expert to learn more. When you think of an orchid, you probably think ...

The lady’s-slipper, whose genus name Cypripedium is Greek for “Venus’s slipper,” is our best known native orchid. The pink lady’s-slipper, or moccasin flower, that I saw is the most ...

Also known as the moccasin flower, this member of the orchid family is now in bloom along with the state flower, the lilac. Advertisement But the two could not be more different.

Lady slipper (Cypripedium acaule) orchid is also called Pink moccasin flower because of shape of the pink bloom, which resembles a moccasin. It grows in the acid, sandy soils of the local woods ...

Orchids are a large and diverse group of flowers. While we tend to think of the dazzling yellow lady-slippers, the pink lady-slippers (moccasin flower) or the pink and white large plants of showy ...