About its roots you may find the lady-slipper and the dog-tooth violet, each in its season. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
A little later, the crimson lady-slipper loves to spring up in pine clearings, around the base of the wood-piles which the cutters have stacked in the winter to season. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
Our deciduous evergreens tamaracks, also called larch and hackmatack are filling in with fresh bright needles, some white water-flower was blooming spikes out in the bog, and white lady-slipper orchids bloomed right at the edge of the road. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday no-roadkill report] Reference
It is why she wanted the lady-slipper flowers in the painting to be. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
Another interesting plant that grows there is the lady-slipper orchid, which is the flashiest wild orchid that grows in Ohio. From Wordnik.com. [dispatch.com: RSS] Reference
"1893: Senator William B. Dean offers a resolution in the Minnesota Senate recommending that the" wild lady-slipper or moccasin flower, Cypripedium calceolus "be named the state flower; the resolution is later adopted by both Senate and House. From Wordnik.com. [www.buzz.mn -] Reference
A lady-slipper?. From Wordnik.com. [Hadda Pada] Reference
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