Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Dactylorhiza fuchsii is a species of Dactylorhiza found in Europe.

Description

Plant blooms from spring to summer with twenty to fifty 2 cm wide flowers.

The flower colour can vary from white to pale purple with purple spots. The lip has three lobes. Some colonies are highly perfumed, attractive to day-flying moths.

Distribution

Plants are found in ubiquitous from alkaline marshes to chalk downland of Iceland, Ireland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, France, Corsica, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czechloslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Most Russia, Western Siberia and Mongolia.

Culture

Plants require partial shade and cool temperatures. Plant is easy to grow and can grow in mediums from garden soil to acidic peat. Water regularly.

Naming

Common Names: Fuch's Dactylorhiza

Synonyms

1. Dactylorchis fuchsii (Druce) Vermeulen 1947
2. Dactylorhiza fuchsii f. alpina Landwehr 1975
3. Dactylorhiza fuchsii subsp. hebridensis (Wilmott) Soó 1962
4. Dactylorhiza fuchsii subsp. meyeri (Rchb.f.) Kulikov & E.G.Philippov 2004
5. Dactylorhiza fuchsii subsp. okellyi (Druce) Soó 1962
6. Dactylorhiza fuchsii subsp. psychrophila (Schltr.) Holub 1964
7. Dactylorchis fuchsii subsp. sooana Borsos 1959
8. Dactylorhiza fuchsii subsp. sooana (Borsos) Borsos 1961
9. Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. alpina (Landwehr) R.M.Bateman & Denholm 1989
10. Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. cornubiensis (Pugsley) Soó 1962
11. Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. hebridensis (Wilmott) R.M.Bateman & Denholm 1989
12. Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. longibracteata Voth 1978
13. Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. magnocalcarata Landwehr 1975
14. Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. okellyi (Druce) R.M.Bateman & Denholm 1989
15. Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. rhodochila Turner Ettl. 1991
16. Dactylorhiza fuchsii var. trilobata (Bréb.) P.D.Sell in P.D.Sell & G.Murrel 1996
17. Dactylorhiza hebridensis (Wilmott) Aver. 1986
18. Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. fuchsii (Druce) Hylander 1966
19. Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. hebridensis (Wilmott) H.Baumann & Künkele 1988
20. Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. okellyi (Druce) H.Baumann & Künkele 1988
21. Dactylorhiza maculata var. psychrophila (Schltr.) Voth 1980
22. Dactylorhiza meyeri (Rchb. fil.) Averyanov 1982
23. Dactylorhiza okellyi (Druce) Aver. 1984
24. Dactylorhiza psychrophila (Schltr.) Aver. 1982
25. *Orchis fuchsii Druce 1915
26. Orchis hebridensis Wilmott 1939
27. Orchis longebracteata F.W. Schmidt 1791
28. Orchis longibracteata Schur 1866
29. Orchis maculata var. cornubiensis Pugsley 1940
30. Orchis maculata var. meyeri Rchb. fil. ?
31. Orchis maculata var. okellyi Druce 1909
32. Orchis maculata var. trilobata De Brebisson 1870
33. Orchis okellyi (Druce) Druce 1914 publ. 1915
34. Orchis maculata var. psychrophila Schltr. 1928