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Flora: Pink Lady's-slipper Pink Lady's-slipper Cypripedium acaule This wildflower requires the presence of an underground fungus to live; as a result, many transplant efforts fail and people who thoughtlessly collect these plants from the wild end up killing them, thus contributing to their increasing rareness. Photographed in Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Photo © 1997 by Resa Ramsey. Used by permission.