View source for Cypripedium passerinum

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|accepted_name=Cypripedium passerinum
|accepted_authority=Richardson in J. Franklin et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea,
|place=762. 1823
|year=1823
}}
|common_names=Sparrow’s-egg lady’s-slipper;Franklin’s lady’s-slipper
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cypripedium passerinum var. minganense
|authority=Victorin
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Cypripedioideae;Cypripedium;Cypripedium passerinum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Cypripedioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cypripedium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cypripedium passerinum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 500, 502
|treatment_page=page 503
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>erect, 12–38[–50] cm. <b>Leaves</b> 3–7, along length of stem, alternate, ascending to spreading; blade elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 5–19 × 1.5–6 cm. <b>Flowers</b> 1(–2); sepals white or green; dorsal sepal suborbiculate to obovate-orbiculate, rarely elliptic, 11–20 × (7–)9–15 mm; lateral sepals connate to nearly distinct, 6–12 mm, segments 3–6 mm wide; synsepal 6–15 mm wide; petals spreading, white, oblong to linear-elliptic, flat, 12–20 × 3–6 mm; lip white, rarely pinkish, obovoid, 11–20 mm; orifice basal but often proportionally very large, 9–13 mm; staminode cordiform-ovoid to ovoid-oblong. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Moist coniferous forests, thickets, openings, tundra, especially in coarse soils of terraces and stream banks
|elevation=0–2200 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Mont.
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|references=
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name=Cypripedium passerinum
|author=
|authority=Richardson in J. Franklin et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cypripedium passerinum var. minganense
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Moist coniferous forests, thickets, openings, tundra, especially in coarse soils of terraces and stream banks
|elevation=0–2200 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Mont.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea,
|publication year=1823
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1025.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Cypripedioideae
|genus=Cypripedium
|species=Cypripedium passerinum
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