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(Calypso bulbosa), terrestrial orchid native to North America and Eurasia, the only species in its genus. It thrives in cool forests and bogs.
A fairy slipper plant bears one flower and one dark-green, crinkled leaf that arises from a rounded corm (swollen stem base). The lip of the purplish-pink flower is pouchlike and bears a number of yellow hairs on the upper surface.
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