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Gymnadenia widderi

Gymnadenia widderi
Photo: Allefant, CC BY-SA 4.0

Gymnadenia widderi is a wild terrestrial orchid of the central Alps and central Italy, a tuberous geophyte rarely grown in gardens. It needs cool, moist, nutrient-poor conditions and is best left in its native habitat.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist during the growing season and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Lean, free-draining, slightly acidic to neutral soil or a gritty mix, often in alpine meadows.
Temperature
Cool conditions suited to alpine climates; tolerates frost well, often below 0 °C in winter.
How easy
Hard
Native range
C. & E. Alps to C. Italy
Climate
temperate

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Gymnadenia widderi is a species of orchid native to the central Alps and central Italy.

Other Gymnadenia plants

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 widderi 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.

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