This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Cypripedium hirsutum. Orchis Family. June - July.
Found in wet, mossy woods, swamps. Newfoundland to Georgia, west to Mississippi.
Pouch white, more or less stained with crimson-magenta, similar in shape to the Stemless Lady's Slipper, but differs in the pouch being open but not divided; other divisions of the flower white, wide, not longer than the pouch.
Broad, pointed, many ribbed. Plant stem leafy 1 - 2 feet high.
 
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