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Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium parviflorum) (lemmy.world)
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Great Lakes region, USA. June 2026.

One of my favorite local wildflowers. They're quite common this time of spring. I hope I can find some pink ones this year.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

My mom has some kind of a drawing or painting of two of these flowers in the guest bathroom at her house. I've always looked at them instead of seeing slippers for a lady, had seen some sort of ladylike face wearing a head covering or mask of some sort and wrapped in some kind of a garment. I'll have to take a picture next time I'm over there of the artwork, but growing up I totally seen a person not some footwear lol

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    That's interesting. I don't see a face myself. I supposed because I've always known these as lady's slippers I've always seen that. The pink ones look like something else entirely, lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    I guess I always seen a female looking type on the top, and a male looking type on the bottom? With maybe a hood on top and maybe a mask or helmet on the bottom.

    Yes, I'm a little weird, if you couldn't already tell :p

    Or maybe my imagination was a little extra as a kid

    Either way, when I found out they were slippers three decades later, it was shocking to me lol

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