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Wild orchids in the meadow .Anacamptis morio

Galearis spectabilis (Showy Orchid) Native North American Woodland Wildflower

Green-winged orchid, Orchis morio. Photo taken in Guadarrama Mountains, La Pedriza, Madrid, Spain

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

The terrestrial Troodos orchid is flowering in spring on Cyprus island, where it is often found in the mountains.

Green-winged Orchid (Anacamptis morio) in Bloom

Anacamptis collina - Orchis Collina - is a terrestrial orchid of the family Orchidaceae and subfamily Orchidoideae.

Bertoloni's bee orchid (Ophrys bertolonii)

A lovely pink orchid growing in the wild in the Corsican maquis

Purple green-winged orchid macro and buttercups in a wildflower meadow

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

Purple flower of the green-winged orchid wild plant on a meadow in spring, Anacamptis morio

Anacamptis morio ssp. syriaca or Orchis syriaca, the green-winged orchid or green-veined orchid is a terrestrial orchid. It usually has purple flowers and is found in Europe and the Middle East, where it flowers in spring.

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

The terrestrial Roman orchid is opening its yellow flowers in spring on Cyprus.

Orobanche uniflora, commonly known as one-flowered broomrape, one-flowered cancer root, ghost pipe or naked broomrape, is an annual parasitic herbaceous plant. Orobanchaceae.

The single, bright pink flower of the Troodos orchid has an extremely long spur. It occurs in the hills and mountains in Western Cyprus, where it flowers in spring.

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