Spiranthes aestivalis (Poiret) L.C.M. Richard 1818 Photo courtesy of Th. Pain and the Orchids of France and Europe

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Common Name The Summer Flowering Spiranthes

Flower Size 1/4"

Found from Morocco, Algeria, Spain, France, Great Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary and Yugoslavia in damp dune slacks, peat bogs and damp grasslands at elevations up to 1400 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 hairy, fusiform roots and giving rise to many, basal, cauline, linear-lanceolate, almost ditichous leaves that blooms on an erect, leafy, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, terminal, many flowered, spicate inflorescence with fragtant flowers occuring in the late spring and mid summer.

Synonyms Gyrostachys aestivalis (Rich.) Dumort. 1827; Neottia aestivalis DC. 1805; Ophrys aestiva Balb 1801; *Ophrys aestivalis Poir. 1789

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 10 1981 Photo; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005

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