Pink and White Lady's Slipper flowers are 1-2 (3), each subtended by a lanceolate green foliaceous bract 6-14 cm long by 3-7 cm wide. The white sepals include dorsal sepals that are ovate to obovate, and are 3-5 cm long and 2-3.5 cm wide. The lateral sepals are united, ovate, and 3-5 cm long and 1.5-3.5 cm wide.Pink and White Lady's Slipper's labellum is pouch-shaped, inflated, spherical (or nearly so), and 2.5-5.5 cm long. The labellum opens above with inrolled edges and is a white color suffused with deep rose to magenta, the veins often being white; rarely the whole being white or rose.
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