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Moccasin Flower; Pink, Venus', or Stemless Lady's Slipper Cypripedium acaule Flowers—Fragrant, solitary, large, showy, drooping from end of scape, 6 to 12 in. high.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje

The scarlet flower, with never a sister-leaf, Stemless, springs from the edge of the Cactus-thorn: Thus from the rugged wounds of desperate grief A beautiful Thought, perfect and pure, is born.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various

Stemless and leafless plants, consisting of flowers only and partly underground 4a, in ARACEAE, p.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan