Vegetation & Wildflowers
Sampling of plants & wildflowers in all their glory.
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White Lady III
Blossoms from a clone of a small white lady's slipper (Cypripedium candidum) at a central Minnesota native prairie near Westport, Minnesota.
Orchids of this genus deceive would-be pollinators that they will be rewarded with nectar. But, Cypripedium orchids don't have nectar. They mimic other flowers that are in bloom during the same time, and also attract flies & bees by eliciting odors that mimic insect reproductive and alarm pheromones.
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