The Showy Lady's Slipper is Minnesota's state flower, and it's against the law to pick it without permission from the landowner. The flowers can live for up to 100 years, and blossom only two ...

A few weeks of temperatures below 60 degrees in late fall to early winter help initiate flower spikes, which last for several weeks. Spiking usually takes place from December through April.

Lady's slipper walk, 1-2:30 p.m., Jay Cooke State Park. Meet in front of the River Inn Visitor Center and go on a 2-mile guided hike to the hillside of yellow lady's slipper flowers.

As the bee exits the flower, the anther (the flower's male part) deposits pollen onto the bee’s back. For pollination to occur the bee must visit at least a couple lady’s slipper flowers.

As the bee exits the flower, the anther (the flower's male part) deposits pollen onto the bee’s back. For pollination to occur the bee must visit at least a couple lady’s slipper flowers.

Those artfully matched features between the fuzzy bumblebee and the trap-like lady slipper flower give just one example of this plant's amazing adaptations. Another occurs out of sight, in the soil.

Although it is widespread, it is rare and frequently occurs as a solitary plant in a pine forest, usually on north-facing slopes. But occasionally lady slippers grow in small, dense populations. Lady ...

The lady's slipper orchid was once widespread throughout Europe and Asia. But by the 20th century, forest clearance and uprooting by orchidcollecting Victorians had wiped out most of the species.

There is a beautiful array of clematis, alliums, streptocarpus, daffodils, roses, delphiniums, and many more plants gracing the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024. Outside of the Great Pavilion ...

Plant thieves have struck for the second time in five years after part of a rare Lady's Slipper orchid was stolen from a golf club in Lancashire. This year, the purple and yellow plant produced seven ...