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Cypripedium franchetii

parviflorum and Cypripedium franchetii makes a nice clump, topped in mid-spring with 13" tall stalks of creamy-white pockets surrounded by twisted burgundy-cinnamon sepals. (Hardiness Zone 5-7, at least) Cypripedium 'Philipp' (Philipp Lady Slipper Orchid) This 1996 Werner Frosch introduction is a hybrid of the Chinese Cypripedium macranthos and the large-growing American Cypripedium kentuckiense. More