| Syn: Cypripedium calceolus Linne 1753 Cypripedium boreale Salisb 1796 |
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| Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. 1791 |
| ALL PHOTOS COPYRIGHT BRYAN S WHELAN 2006 |
| I'm uncertain about the variety of these parviflorum. could be either parviflorum or makasin. plants are short, 6-10 inches tall with small 1 inch pouches, growing mostly around 5500 feet on a south facing dryas slope. All three photos depict color variation in the same colony. No multiflorals, or mid-bracted growth.. After asking several real botanist book author types, and getting flak from others for even having an opinion, I can safely say that I no longer care which type it is. anyway... I know where they are, and I'm not tellin. -so they might as well be Cypripedium parviflorum var. muffinmeat. In fact. that's exactly what they are.. |
| This is the photo which causes all the ?????.. Some say that this proves some sort of cyp. montanum link / ??? but i believe what I have read/etc, that white pouched forms of parviflorum. do occur..and also that C.montanum is a larger plant, no exeptions..altho I haven't seen one.. I think it is clear that there are no differnces in the photos other than color var... They were all found within yds of each other.... and when I say ALL, there were/are thousands scattered over the side of a mountain. |