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Dactylorhiza maculata
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Dactylorhiza maculata

Dactylorhiza maculata, known as the heath spotted-orchid or moorland spotted orchid, is a herbaceous perennial plant of the family Orchidaceae. It is widespread in mountainous regions across much of Europe from Portugal and Iceland east to Russia. It is also found in Algeria, Morocco, and western Siberia. It prefers woods, moorland, bogs, marshes, pastureland and meadows.

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6 branches of this group, most-observed first

Common Spotted Orchid

speciesDactylorhiza fuchsii

heath spotted orchid

speciesDactylorhiza maculata

Wedge-lipped Orchid

speciesDactylorhiza saccifera

Dactylorhiza sudetica

speciesDactylorhiza sudetica

Dactylorhiza × transiens

hybridDactylorhiza × transiens

Dactylorhiza bucovina

speciesDactylorhiza bucovina

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1394247.