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Morning with dew drops and blossom orchids wildflowers at grass roots level

Grass Pink Orchid is an extraordinarily beautiful wildflower found in undisturbed tallgrass prairies. Sunrise dew adds to the wildflower’s beauty.

Green-winged orchid, Orchis morio. Photo taken in Guadarrama Mountains, La Pedriza, Madrid, Spain

$Orchis mascula, the early-purple orchid, early spring orchis, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae.\nDescription:\nOrchis mascula is a perennial herbaceous plant with stems up to 50–60 centimeters high, green at the base and purple on the apex. The root system consists of two tubers, rounded or ellipsoid. The leaves, grouped at the base of the stem, are oblong-lanceolate, pale green, sometimes with brownish-purple speckles. The inflorescence is 7.5–12.5 centimeters long and it is composed of 6 to 20 flowers gathered in dense cylindrical spikes. The flower size is about 2.5 centimeters and the color varies from pinkish-purple to purple. The lateral sepals are ovate-lanceolate and erect, the median one, together with the petals, is smaller and cover the gynostegium. The labellum is three-lobed and convex, with crenulated margins and the basal part clearer and dotted with purple-brown spots. The spur is cylindrical or clavate, horizontal or ascending. The gynostegium is short, with reddish-green anthers. It blooms from April to June.\nHabitat:\nIt grows in a variety of habitats, from meadows to mountain pastures and woods, in full sun or shady areas, from sea level to 2,500 meters altitude. Mostly on calcareous soils.\nDistribution:\nThe species is widespread across Europe, from Portugal to the Caucasus (Ireland, Great Britain, The Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, most of Russia), in northwest Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) and in the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq) up to Iran. (Codes) (source Wikipedia). \n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the South of Belgium in June 2006.$

Close up of a broad-leaved marsh orchid, Dactylorhiza majalis

Wild orchids (Dactylorhiza Maculata) growing at grassy meadow on Zelengora mountain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe. Shallow dof.

Close-up of Anacamptis morio. Wild pink Orchis in the italian countryside on springtime

Meadow with many marsh orchids. The image was captured in the swiss alps (canton of glarus) at an altitude of 1700m.

Calypso bulbosa, known as the calypso orchid, fairy slipper or Venus's slipper. It is a perennial member of the orchid family found in undisturbed northern and montane forests. It has a small pink, purple, pinkish-purple, or red flower accented with a white lip, darker purple spottings, and yellow beard. Salt Point State Park, California.

Broad-leaved marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza majalis) flower in a meadow in the Zgornje Jezersko valley in Slovenia during a beautiful springtime day with the mountain range around the Grintovec mountain peak in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps in the background.

Green-winged Orchid (Anacamptis morio) in Bloom

Wild orchid (mascula) sprouting in spring

common spotted orchid (dactylorhiza fuchsii) flower captured in the swiss alps during summer season at an altitude of 1700m.

Blossom purple orchids, Orchis mascula, in a barren landscape in the world heritage site of southern Oland in Sweden

$Short to medium hairless, tuberous-rooted; stem with 2-3 basal, brownish, sheaths. Flowers pink or reddish-lilac, sometimes white or purple, vanilla-scented, in a rather dense slender spike, the lateral sepals spreading, but the upper sepal and petals forming a hood; lip 3.5-5mm, 3-lobed with a longer, slender, slightly curved spur, 11-18mm, pointed, much longer than the ovary. Habitat: In a variety of places from grassland and open scrub, to marshes and fens, but more especially on calcareous soils, to 2700m. Flowering Season: June-July. Distribution: Throughout Europe, except the far north. \n\nThis Picture is made on a Chalk Hill in the South of Belgium (Ardennes) in June 2006.$

Heart-shaped Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza cordigera)

Purple flower of the green-winged orchid plant on a meadow in late spring, Anacamptis morio

The loose-flowered orchid is flowering on Cyprus in spring.

Wild orchid; Dactylorhiza umbrosa or Dactylorhiza nieschalkiorum, Van - Turkey

An Early Purple Orchid brightens a hedgerow along Offas Dyke in Shropshire

Platanthera bifolia flowering European terrestrial wild orchid, nature habitat, detail of bloom with green clear background, Czech.

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