This Friday Fabulous Flower is one of the grandest (fabulous?) orchids in North America, the Showy Lady slipper, Cypripedium reginae, and yes, you shall get no location information to accompany the image. Besides this is a wetland species (knee got wet getting this image), and TPP has found this species growing in ditches in Wisconsin. This species is also a big plant for an orchid; clumps can be large and waist high. It surprises people to learn that orchids are generally small flowered. It amuses us to watch people walk right by most orchids because small and green just does not attract much attention. Loss of habitat (if this image had a sound track you could hear cars and trucks whizzing by on a nearby interstate) and human predation are its biggest problems leading to an endangered or threatened status.
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