MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- It's the case of the stolen Lady's Slipper -- the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is asking for the public's help in finding who made off with the rare flower that is protected ...

Showy lady's slippers bloom Wednesday, June 20, at the Northland Arboretum in Baxter. The showy lady's slipper, which is the state flower, is an orchid native to Minnesota generally blooming from ...

I’ll never forget my first encounter with lady’s-slippers. While hiking the Long Trail in southern Vermont one June, we camped near a remote pond. Our tent site beneath an evergreen canopy was ...

One of the many great things about summer in the Northland -- and certainly among the most colorful -- is the emergence of the showy lady’s slipper, Minnesota’s state flower. Also known by some as ...

With large, bulb-shaped flowers that range in color from white to various shades of pink, the pink lady’s slipper orchid is one of the most attractive and fascinating wildflowers in Massachusetts.

Irises are in bloom as I walk by the pond. They have just begun to show their blue colors to this wetland. As I enter the woods, I note small trees and bushes flowering along the trail. In the woods’ ...

It looks like it would gobble up an unsuspecting pollinator but instead the pouch called a labellum is simply nature’s method of getting a pollination program underway. The pollinator flies into the ...

The pink lady’s slipper (New Hampshire’s state wildflower) is one of the few woodland wildflowers that almost everyone has heard of and gets very excited about seeing. They are blooming right now in ...

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More than 20,000 species of orchids have been described, and more species are being discovered each year. Most orchids are tropical epiphytes, or plants growing on other plants. Temperate orchids are ...