Cypripedium acaule: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Cypripedium
- Species
- Cypripedium acaule
- Scientific Name
- Cypripedium acaule
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cypripedium acaule
Cypripedium acaule, the pink lady's slipper or moccasin flower, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae native to eastern North America. It is currently the provincial flower of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and the state wildflower of New Hampshire, United States.
Indigenous peoples traditionally used this plant for medicinal purposes. For example, Algonquin people, who form part of the larger cultural group known as the Anishinaabeg, traditionally used C. acaule to treat menstrual disorders. Due to population decline, harvesting for medicinal purposes is no longer recommended. As C. acaule takes many years to go from seed to mature plant, the gathering of seed-bearing specimens is presently unsustainable.
...Cypripedium acaule in languages:
- Czech
- střevíčník bezlodyžný
- Danish
- lav fruesko
- English
- pink lady's slipper
- English
- moccasin flower
- English
- pink ladyslipper
- English
- scrotum flower
- English
- scrotum plant
- English
- pink testicle plant
- English
- scrotum orchid
- French
- cypripède acaule
- German
- Rosablütiger Frauenschuh
- German
- Stengelloser Frauenschuh
- German
- Stängelloser Frauenschuh
- Russian
- Башмачок бесстебельный
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