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The close-up of Epipactis palustris (marsh helleborine)

Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris) growing wild in Northumberland, UK.

$Short to medium; stem hairy above, purplish below. Leaves 4-8, oblong to lanceolate, pointed, folded lengthwise, decreasing in size upwards. Flowers 7-14; sepals greenish with faint violet or purplish-brown stripes; petals whitish with a pink base; lip white with a yellow blotch and purplish lines, the tip oval with a frilly margin. Fruit hairy.\nHabitat: Marshes, fens and other damp places, occasionally dune slacks.\nFlowering Season: July to August.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except the extreme North.\n\nThis nice Species is quite rare in the Netherlands. Most to be seen in the Coast Areas and scattered in the rest of the Country.$

Grass Pink Orchid is an extraordinarily beautiful wildflower found in undisturbed tallgrass prairies. Sunrise dew adds to the wildflower’s beauty.

Flowers of a marsh helleborine, Epipactis palustris, an rare orchid, Bavaria, Germany

Autumn Lady’s-tresses - Spiranthes spiralis on Dorset downland in September

$Calanthe discolor\nEbine Flower$

Broad-Leaved Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine) in to wild

Marsh Helleborine orchid flowers in closeup

Marsh helleborine (Epipactis palustris) orchid flowers blooming with bright colored yellow background

This Streamside Orchid was photographed in the Arbuckle Mountains of Oklahoma.

$Epipactis helleborine, the broad-leaved helleborine, is a terrestrial species of orchid with a broad distribution. It is a long lived herb which varies morphologically with ability to self-pollinate. \nDescription:\nEpipactis helleborine can grow to a maximum height of 1 m or more under good conditions, and has broad dull green leaves which are strongly ribbed and flat The flowers are arranged in long drooping racemes with dull green sepals and shorter upper petals. The lower labellum is pale red and is much shorter than the upper petals. \nFlowering occurs June–September. \nHabitat:\nFound in woods and hedge-banks and often not far from paths near human activity. It is one of the most likely European orchids to be found within a city, with many sites for example in Glasgow, London and Moscow. Sometimes spotted beside car parks. \nEpipactis helleborine is known for its successful colonization of human-made or anthropogenic habitats such as parks, gardens or roadsides. These roadside orchids exhibit special features such as large plant size and greater ability to produce flowers. Pollination plays a huge role as pollinators such as Syrphidae, Culicidae, Apidae etc. possess greater species diversity and visits the flowering sites more in anthropogenic habitats as compared to native ones. The visitation rates along with the reproductive success of these orchids are higher in large populations as they are more attractive to pollinators. \n\nDistribution:\nThis species is widespread across much of Europe and Asia, from Portugal to China, as well as northern Africa (source Wikipedia).\n\nThis is a very common Species in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$

Cephalanthera longifolia, Sword-leaved Helleborine flowering European terrestrial wild orchid, nature, detail of white bloom, Bile Karpaty, Czech. Wide angle with tree forest habitat.

Red Helleborine (Cephalanthera rubra) in natural habitat

Epipactis palustris is a perennial herbaceous plant. This species has a stem growing to 60 cm high with as many as ten erect leaves up to 12 cm long. The image shows the flower in bloom, captured in the canton of solothurn during summer season.

Orchid family is a diverse family of flowering plants, with colorful and often fragrant flowers. It is said that they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants with more than twenty thousand species.

Close up images of Wild Bamboo Orchid (Arundina graminifolia)

Close-up of the brightly blooming purple cephalanthera rubra flower growing against the blurred background in nature.

Small white rare orchid Spiranthes spiralis, commonly known as autumn lady's-tresses

A beautiful view of a Broad-leaved Helleborine subsp. Epipactis tremolsii, wild orchid, Andalusia.

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