Cypripedium reginae - Showy Lady's Slipper - 1-Quart

Cypripedium reginae – Showy Lady’s Slipper – 1-Quart

$20.00

Certainly a regal plant if ever there was one. The flower has a bubble-gum pink pouch that contrasts with crystalline white petals/sepals. Large size, spectacular beauty, and relative ease of culture combine to make this species one of the most desirable for the bog garden. Native to fens, bogs and swamps in limestone areas, originally from Maine to North Dakota south to Arkansas and North Carolina. The species has been extirpated from large portions of its range due to habitat destruction and poaching. The leaves are covered in stiff hairs, giving the plants a silvery green sheen. It needs a fairly open, constantly moist spot with a neutral pH to thrive. We occasionally have a pure white flowered form.

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Description

Orchid family (Orchidaceae)

You will often find native species of Lady’s-slipper offered for sale at inexpensive prices in mail-order catalogs, on the World Wide Web, or even in local retail stores.

Many, if not all, of these plants are dug from the wild and are unlikely to survive in your garden – the roots of Slipper Orchids are easily damaged by transplanting and the plants will slowly decline after being moved.

All of our Lady’s-slippers are nursery propagated from laboratory-cultured seedlings – never dug from the wild. This makes them more expensive than wild-harvested plants but helps conserve and enhance the populations of these rare wildflowers.

Most of our plants are young and it will be years before they flower.

Image by Allefant, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Updated 13 September 2026

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