(n) genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum, Syn. genus Cypripedium
(n) often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California, Syn. Cypripedium californicum
(n) clusters of several short stems each having 2 broad leaves and 2-4 drooping brownish to greenish flowers with pouches mottled with purple; British Columbia to central California and northern Colorado, Syn. Cypripedium fasciculatum
(n) leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with 1 white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil; Alaska to northern California and Wyoming, Syn. Cypripedium montanum