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Anacamptis morio
Also called King Fingers
Green-winged orchid is a wild terrestrial orchid of European grasslands, not a common garden plant, grown from a tuber and best left in native meadows. It needs unimproved grassland with cutting or grazing after flowering to thrive.
Anacamptis morio, the green-winged orchid or green-veined orchid (synonym Orchis morio), is a flowering plant of the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It usually has purple flowers, and is found in Europe, Northern Africa and western Asia.
It is a native of western Eurasia, ranging from Europe to Iran, and Northern Africa from Morocco to Tunisia. In the British Isles it is found in central-southern England, Wales and Ireland.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anacamptis morio by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
