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Serapias lingua
Serapias lingua, commonly known as tongue-orchid or the tongue Serapias, is a species of orchid native to the Mediterranean.
Serapias lingua can be found in damp meadows, open fields, marshlands, and sometimes garrigue of Portugal, Spain, Malta, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, the Mediterranean islands west of Crete, and western North Africa. It has also been recorded from some sites in southern England, where it is unclear if it is naturally occurring.
Greek Plowshare · Heart-flowered serapias · Neglected Serapias · Eastern Tongue Orchid · Small-flowered serapias · Serapias perez-chiscanoi · Serapias lingua subsp. stenopetala · Long-lipped Serapias · Tongue Orchids
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Serapias lingua by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
