(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) any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden, Syn. lady-slipper, ladies' slipper, slipper orchid
(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
pos>n. (Bot.) Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina). [ 1913 Webster ]