Cypripedium - Species and Natural Hybrids

Species and Natural Hybrids

There are approximately 356 species in this genus, including:

• Cypripedium acaule : Mocassin Flower, Pink Lady's-Slipper,Two-leaved Lady's-slipper (C. and E. Canada, NC & E U.S.A)
• Cypripedium agnicapitatum (Manchuria)
• Cypripedium × alaskanum (C. guttatum × C. yatabeanum; Alaska)
• Cypripedium × andrewsii (C. candidum × C. parviflorum var. pubescens) (E Canada, NC & NE U.S.A)
• Cypripedium arietinum : Ram's-head Lady's-slipper (C & E Canada, NC & NE U.S.A)
• Cypripedium bardolphianum (China)
  • Cypripedium bardolphianum var. bardolphianum (China)
  • Cypripedium bardolphianum var. zhongdianense (China)
• Cypripedium calceolus (Yellow Lady's-Slipper; Europe to Japan)
• Cypripedium calcicolum (China)
• Cypripedium californicum (California Lady's-Slipper; Oregon, N. California)
• Cypripedium candidum (Small White Lady Slipper; SE Canada, NC & E U.S.A)
• Cypripedium × catherinae (C. macranthon × C. shanxiense; Russian Far East)
• Cypripedium cheniae (China)
• Cypripedium × columbianum (C. montanum × C. parviflorum var. pubescens; W Canada, NW U.S.A)
• Cypripedium cordigerum (Heart-Lip Lady's-slipper; N Pakistan to Himalaya, S Tibet)
• Cypripedium daweishanense (S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu) S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu (2005) (Yunnan, China South-Central)
• Cypripedium debile (Frail Lady's-slipper) (Japan, Taiwan, China)
• Cypripedium dickinsonianum (Mexico (S Chiapas) to Guatemala)
• Cypripedium elegans (E Nepal to China)
• Cypripedium fargesii (China)
• Cypripedium farreri (China)
• Cypripedium fasciculatum (Brownie Lady's-slipper, Clustered Lady's-slipper; W U.S.A)
• Cypripedium fasciolatum (China)
• Cypripedium flavum (Yellow Lady's-slipper; SE Tibet, SC China)
• Cypripedium formosanum (Formosa Lady's-Slipper; C Taiwan)
• Cypripedium forrestii (China)
• Cypripedium franchetii (Franchet's Lady's-slipper; C & SC China)
• Cypripedium froschii (China)
• Cypripedium guttatum (Spotted Lady's-Slipper; European Russia to Korea, Alaska to Yukon)
• Cypripedium henryi (Henry's Lady's-slipper; C China)
• Cypripedium x herae . (C.parviflorum x C.reginae) (Manitoba, Canada)
• Cypripedium himalaicum (SE Tibet to Himalaya)
• Cypripedium irapeanum (Pelican Orchid, Irapeao Lady's-slipper; Mexico to Honduras)
• Cypripedium japonicum (Japan Lady's-slipper; China, Korea, Japan)
• Cypripedium kentuckiense (Kentucky Lady's-Slipper, Southern Lady's-Slipper; C & E U.S.A)
• Cypripedium lentiginosum (China)
• Cypripedium lichiangense S.C.Chen & P.J.Cribb (China (SW Sichuan, NW Yunnan), NE Myanmar)
  • Cypripedium lichiangense var. daweishanense S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu (now synonym of Cypripedium daweishanense (S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu) S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu 2005)
• Cypripedium ludlowii (SE Tibet)
• Cypripedium macranthos (Large-flowered Lady's-slipper; E Belarus to temperate E Asia)
• Cypripedium malipoense S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu (Yunnan, China South-Central)
• Cypripedium margaritaceum (Pearl-white Lady's-slipper; China)
• Cypripedium micranthum (China)
• Cypripedium molle (Mexico)
• Cypripedium montanum (Large Lady's-slipper, Mountain Lady's-slipper, White Lady's-slipper, Moccasin flower; Alaska to California)
• Cypripedium morinanthum (Manchuria)
• Cypripedium neoparviflorum (Manchuria)
• Cypripedium palangshanense (China)
• Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. (Canada, E U.S.A)
  • Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum (Canada, E U.S.A.)
  • Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens (Yellow Lady's-slipper; N. America; rhizome geophyte)
• Cypripedium passerinum (Franklyn's Lady's-slipper, Small White Northern Lady's-slipper, Sparrow's Egg Lady's-slipper; Alaska to Canada, Montana)
• Cypripedium plectrochilum (N Myanmar to SC China)
• Cypripedium pubescens (Greater yellow lady's-slipper)
• Cypripedium reginae Walter : Large White Lady's-slipper, Queen's Lady's-slipper, Showy Lady's-slipper; C & E Canada, NC & E. U.S.A)
• Cypripedium roseum (Manchuria)
• Cypripedium rubronerve (China)
• Cypripedium segawai (EC Taiwan)
• Cypripedium shanxiense (China to N Japan)
• Cypripedium sichuanense (China)
• Cypripedium sinapoides (Manchuria)
• Cypripedium subtropicum (SE. Tibet)
• Cypripedium taibaiense (China)
• Cypripedium tibeticum (Sikkim to C China)
• Cypripedium × ventricosum (Russia to Korea)
• Cypripedium wardii (SE. Tibet, China)
• Cypripedium × wenqingiae (C. farreri × C. tibeticum; China)
• Cypripedium wumengense (China)
• Cypripedium yatabeanum (Russian Far East to N & NC Japan, Aleutian Islands to SW Alaska)
• Cypripedium yunnanense (SE Tibet, China)