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Dactylorhiza fuchsii
A wild European terrestrial orchid with spotted flowers, native across Europe into Siberia and Mongolia. It is a meadow and woodland plant that needs cool, moist conditions, so it is rarely grown in gardens and is usually protected in the wild rather than dug up.
Dactylorhiza fuchsii, the common spotted orchid, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae. It is one of Europe's most common wild orchids, and is widespread across much of Europe, with the range extending eastward into Siberia, Mongolia and Xinjiang. The species is also reportedly naturalised in the Canadian Province of Ontario.
Dactylorhiza fuchsii is a Eurosiberian species occurring over Europe from Ireland in the west eastwards to Mongolia, the Altai Mountains and across northern Asia. It is sympatric with D. maculata.
Keyflower · Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. baltica · Dactylorhiza cantabrica · Stately Dactylorhiza · Richly-Leaved Dactylorhiza · Dactylorhiza francis-drucei · Dactylorhiza hatagirea · Dactylorhiza iberica · Flecked Marsh Orchid · Early marsh-orchid · Dactylorhiza insularis · Heath spotted orchid
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dactylorhiza fuchsii 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.
