Species
Cypripedium californicum (California lady's slipper)
Cypripedium californicum. Photo: (c) Morgan Stickrod, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The California lady’s slipper (Cypripedium californicum) is a member of the orchid genus Cypripedium, the lady’s slipper orchids. It is native to the western United States, where it has a very restricted range and can only be found in the mountains of southwestern Oregon (Kalmiopsis Wilderness) and northern California. It prefers the margins of woodland streams in open coniferous forests.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Class: Liliopsida (Monocots)
- Order: Asparagales (Agaves, orchids, irises, and allies)
- Family: Orchidaceae (Orchids)
- Subfamily: Cypripedioideae (Slipper orchids)
- Genus: Cypripedium (Hardy slipper orchids)
- Section: Irapeana
- Species: Cypripedium californicum (California lady's slipper)
- Section: Irapeana
- Genus: Cypripedium (Hardy slipper orchids)
- Subfamily: Cypripedioideae (Slipper orchids)
- Family: Orchidaceae (Orchids)
- Order: Asparagales (Agaves, orchids, irises, and allies)
- Class: Liliopsida (Monocots)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)














