Cypripedium californicum, California Lady's Slipper Size:0.42 qt Intensely blue

Intensely blue

Five- to eight-inch deep purple velvet flowers bloom on vines six to eight feet

Fertile leaflets form panicles of maroon

Moist woodland soil is ideal

and after a midseason dormant period

Cypripedium californicum, California Lady's Slipper Size:0.42 qt Intensely blueA charming west coast native that enjoys the stream sides of southern Oregon and northern California, sometimes growing near the carnivorous Darlingtonia californica. Small flowers with bright white pouches and lemon yellow sepals on stems up to 3 feet tall in May June. These plants were flask grown from seeds collected near O'Brien, Oregon. They do tend to require some summer heat to do well. Minimum temperature: 20 F