Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Green-winged Orchid, Anacamptis morio, Magairlín féitheach
Photographs: Barleycove, Co. Cork

Green-winged Orchid
Anacamptis morio (Orchis morio)
Magairlín féitheach
Family: Orchidaceae

Flowering time: May-June. Tuberous perennial. Native.

Flowers in a loose spike, usually purple but can be pink or occasionally white. Sepals form hood with parallel green-purplish veins. The lip is broad, bluntly 3-lobed with crimson spots. Unspotted glossy green leaves, lower leaves in rosette, the upper sheathing.

Grows on base-rich to slightly acidic soils. Grassland, dunes, heaths, roadsides. Locally frequent, but decreasing. An endangered species.

Similar: Early Purple Orchid, Orchis mascula No veins on sepals

Green-winged Orchid, Anacamptis morio, Magairlín féitheach

Green-winged Orchid, Anacamptis morio, Magairlín féitheach

Green-winged Orchid, Anacamptis morio, Magairlín féitheach
Green-winged Orchid, Anacamptis morio, Magairlín féitheach

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