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Serapias parviflora
Also called Small Flowered Tongue Orchid, Lesser Tongue Orchid
Small-flowered serapias is a terrestrial tuberous orchid of Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal grasslands, growing 10 to 30 cm tall with a spike of greyish-pink, hooded flowers. It is a wild species rather than a commonly grown ornamental, and it needs open, sunny, lightly managed ground.
Serapias parviflora, the small-flowered tongue-orchid, is a species of orchid native to the Mediterranean Basin and the Atlantic coast of Europe.
Serapias parviflora is found natively across the Mediterranean Basin from the Iberian Peninsula to the Aegean Sea, as well as in the Canary Islands and along the Atlantic coast of France. It was discovered in 1989 at Rame Head in Cornwall (United Kingdom), and may have dispersed there naturally. That colony disappeared after 20 years, but in 2021, 16 plants were discovered growing on the 11th-floor biodiverse green roof at Nomura International's office building in the City of London.
Greek Plowshare · Heart-flowered serapias · Tongue-orchid · Neglected Serapias · Eastern Tongue Orchid · Serapias perez-chiscanoi · Serapias lingua subsp. stenopetala · Long-lipped Serapias · Tongue Orchids
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Serapias parviflora 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.
