Photo by Carl Wells
Showy Lady's Slipper is a perennial, native wildflower in Wisconsin. It grows one to three feet tall. The flower is two to three inches tall with three white, pointed, upper sepals and a large, inflated, pink and white petal below the sepals. The petal is often veined in dark pink. The basal leaves grow up to 10 inches long and two inches wide. They have deeply ribbed parallel veins which clasp the stem. Smaller upper leaves also clasp the stem. It grows in sun and some shade in swamps, moist woodlands, and along streams. (LS)