Yellow Lady Slipper

Yellow Lady Slipper
(Cypripedium calceolus – var. pubescens )

Yellow LadyslipperNative perennial orchid, 12-24 inches tall with yellow flower whose lower petal is inflated to form a pouch 1 to 1 1/2 inches long. Infrequent or rare on rich wooded slopes, blooming from April until June.

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  • Grandfather Mountain you're big and you're high.  It seems that your shoulders help to hold up the sky.  I will never forget you till the day that I die.   Oh I will keep those old memories alive.

    If you have never been there a beauty so wild and so rare, it could even rival a rose.  And on a clear day from the top of his head, you can see clear to Charlotte below.

    Grandfather Mountain you're big and you're high.  It seems that your shoulders help to hold up the sky.  I will never forget you till the day that I die.  Oh I will keep those old memories alive.
    Hubert Alan Gragg
    Lenoir, NC
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