The emblematic orchid of French flora!

Recognizable among all orchids and emblematic of the difficulty these flowers have in living in our landscapes crisscrossed by tourists and Sunday walkers. Formerly very abundant, Lady's Slipper have been picked more than reason to the point of almost disappearing. Their habitat is also threatened due to pastoral abandonment and the overgrowth of their biotope. In the north of the Côte d'Or, a cold climate allows them to perpetuate themselves because otherwise, the species is rather mountainous or northern. The little story says that the species would have been introduced there by monks then would have "escaped" into the neighboring forests.
Generally, the foot supports a single flower but sometimes 2. Once fertilized, the flower fades quite quickly and its flowering is only observable for a short period around June 1 and until June 15 in the mountains.