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long, light green with a darker green center, narrow at the base and wide at the tip. Two shallow lobes at the tip make the lip resemble the folded wings of an insect. Sometimes there is a small tooth between the lobes. Reproduction by runners sometimes produces large colonies of plants. Source: Encyclopedia of Life

Ute Ladies' Tresses is a perennial orchid with usually 1 stem that is 20-50 cm tall and arising from tuberously thickened roots. Its narrow leaves are 1 cm wide, can reach 28 cm long, are longest at their base, and persist during flowering. The inflorescence consists of few to many white or ivory flowers clustered in a spike of 3-rank spirals at the top of the stem. The sepals and petals ar...

Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens grows from 23-70 cm high. There are 4-6 oval-lanceolate leaves. 1-2 flowers are borne at the top of th estem. The sepals and petals are greenish-yellow streaked with fine lines of madder-purple. The sepals are ovate-lanceolate. The upper sepal is 4-7 cm long and the lower sepals are usually fused together except at the tips, although occasionally specimens ...