A familiar song — “tea-cher, Tea-Cher, TEA-CHER!” — greeted me as I stepped from my car. I first heard that territorial assertion of the ovenbird in this same spot 39 years ago in 1984. Another three ...

URBANA, Ohio - There is an elegant little orchid in the Cedar Bog Nature Preserve that has put botanists and conservationists in a precarious place. It's called the small yellow lady's slipper, and it ...

More than 30 showy lady’s-slippers surprised Clyde and Stacie Varnson, who live on 10th Crow Wing Lake. While they have many yellow lady’s-slippers on their property, these are the first showy ...

A recent Facebook post from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suggested the showy lady’s slipper should win the Flower of the Year Award – if such an award existed. I certainly enjoy looking at them.

In general, lady-slippers want loose, aerated soil, not compacted dry soil. If your showy lady-slippers do well, you can divide them like hostas early in the spring or in the fall to get more plants.

Named for the shape of its blossom, the large yellow lady slipper is a native North American orchid. Southeast Missouri is near the southwestern edge of this flower's range, which extends northward ...

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 ...

Name: Large yellow lady's slipper, Cypripedium calceolus var. pubescens. Season: Flowering takes place in mid- to late spring, depending on the growing site. Description: Lady's slippers are among the ...

Yellow Lady Slippers are wild orchids that flourish during the month of June on the Bruce Peninsula. To find them, all you have to do is look in roadside ditches. But if you do this while driving fast ...

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