Common Name -  Showy Lady's Slipper
	Scientific Name - Cypripedium reginae
	Family Name - Orchid (Orchidaceae)
Season	Perennial, late June.
Habitat	Swamps, bogs, wet roadside ditches, requires bright sun.
Flower	Irregular, pouch shaped, composed of one inflated pink-white petal and three white sepals. Flower appears on a long stalk.
Leaves	Alternate, simple, toothless, broad with prominent parallel veins.
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