English: Red Helleborine.
Family:
OrchidaceaeRegion: Europe, Spain, France, Italy; Asia, Iran, the Caucasus.
Habitat: prefers light woodland, forest edges, and scrublands; prefers calcareous, chalky or limestone soils.
Uses: ornamental, attractive flowers.
BotanyHerb; perennial.
Root: rhizomatous root system, allowing for clonal propagation and stability in its habitat.
Leaves: lanceolate; dark green; glossy; alternate.
Inflorescence: loose spike, rraceme; with a few to several flowers.
Flowers: showy; pink to purplish-red, sometimes with white markings; zygomorphic, with a characteristic lip.
Pollinators: bees, also other insects.