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Gymnadenia miniata
Gymnadenia miniata is a small, red-flowered terrestrial orchid from the Alps and Carpathians that grows from tubers in meadows and grassland. It is a wild European alpine species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs cool conditions and a grassland-like habitat to thrive.
Gymnadenia miniata is a species of orchid native to the Eastern Alps and Carpathian Mountains. It is similar in appearance to Gymnadenia bicolor; both species were split from a former less defined taxon Nigritella rubra which referred to all red flowering Gymnadenia.
Austrian Gymnadenia · Black Vanilla Orchid · Bicolor Fragrant Orchid · Gymnadenia bicornis · Heath fragrant orchid · Fragrant orchid · Cornelia’s Orchid · Gymnadenia crassinervis · Gymnadenia dolomitensis · Gymnadenia hygrophila · Austrian Gymnadenia · Red Vanilla Orchid
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gymnadenia miniata 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.
