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Natural closeup on the purple flower of the Eurropean perennial herbaceous Pyramidal Orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis

Pyramidal Orchid bud (Anacamptis pyramidalis) starting to open up into a flower

Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis)

Purple beauty orchid flowers, pyramidal orchids

Meadow with many marsh orchids. The image was captured in the swiss alps (canton of glarus) at an altitude of 1700m.

Springtime. Oeiras, Portugal. Wild spring flowers. Pyramidal orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis growing in nature. Orchidaceae family. Natural defocused dark background.

$Orchis mascula, the early-purple orchid, early spring orchis, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae.\nDescription:\nOrchis mascula is a perennial herbaceous plant with stems up to 50–60 centimeters high, green at the base and purple on the apex. The root system consists of two tubers, rounded or ellipsoid. The leaves, grouped at the base of the stem, are oblong-lanceolate, pale green, sometimes with brownish-purple speckles. The inflorescence is 7.5–12.5 centimeters long and it is composed of 6 to 20 flowers gathered in dense cylindrical spikes. The flower size is about 2.5 centimeters and the color varies from pinkish-purple to purple. The lateral sepals are ovate-lanceolate and erect, the median one, together with the petals, is smaller and cover the gynostegium. The labellum is three-lobed and convex, with crenulated margins and the basal part clearer and dotted with purple-brown spots. The spur is cylindrical or clavate, horizontal or ascending. The gynostegium is short, with reddish-green anthers. It blooms from April to June.\nHabitat:\nIt grows in a variety of habitats, from meadows to mountain pastures and woods, in full sun or shady areas, from sea level to 2,500 meters altitude. Mostly on calcareous soils.\nDistribution:\nThe species is widespread across Europe, from Portugal to the Caucasus (Ireland, Great Britain, The Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, most of Russia), in northwest Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) and in the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq) up to Iran. (Codes) (source Wikipedia). \n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the South of Belgium in June 2006.$

$Floraison des Anacamptis pyramidalis\nAnacamptis pyramidalis en fleur$

Broad-leaved marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza majalis) flower in a meadow in the Zgornje Jezersko valley in Slovenia during a beautiful springtime day with the mountain range around the Grintovec mountain peak in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps in the background.

Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) growing wild in a meadow

common spotted orchid (dactylorhiza fuchsii) flower captured in the swiss alps during summer season at an altitude of 1700m.

$Flowering of Anacamptis pyramidalis\nAnacamptis pyramidalis in bloom$

Wild orchids (Dactylorhiza Maculata) growing at grassy meadow on Zelengora mountain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe. Shallow dof.

Macro shot of a southern marsh orchid (dactylorhiza praetermissa) flower in bloom

Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) close up picture

A closeup of a wild Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis)

Spring wildflowers in the countryside of Tuscany Italy

$Short to medium hairless, tuberous-rooted; stem with 2-3 basal, brownish, sheaths. Flowers pink or reddish-lilac, sometimes white or purple, vanilla-scented, in a rather dense slender spike, the lateral sepals spreading, but the upper sepal and petals forming a hood; lip 3.5-5mm, 3-lobed with a longer, slender, slightly curved spur, 11-18mm, pointed, much longer than the ovary. Habitat: In a variety of places from grassland and open scrub, to marshes and fens, but more especially on calcareous soils, to 2700m. Flowering Season: June-July. Distribution: Throughout Europe, except the far north. \n\nThis Picture is made on a Chalk Hill in the South of Belgium (Ardennes) in June 2006.$

Anacamptis pyramidalis, Pyramidal Orchid, in spring

Early summer flowering Wild Orchid, the Southern Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa) or sometimes known as Leopard Marsh Orchid, discovered in Holkham Meals, the Nature Reserve alongside Holkham Beach, Holkham Hall, on the North Norfolk Coast.The flowers are pollinated by insects particularly the cuckoo bee and skipper butterfly. It is found close to water, in damp alkaline meadows, by ponds, lakes or reservoirs and as in this case, in dune slacks.

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