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Orchidaceae
Early purple orchid
Orchis mascula
Also known as Androrchis mascula, Male orchid, Common purple orchid, Orchis rectiflorus
Native Plants · Orchid · Terrestrial Orchid · Wildflower · European Orchid · Woodland · Meadow · Pollinator · Rare · Spring Bloomer · Native
The Early Purple Orchid is a terrestrial European orchid that requires well-drained, alkaline grassland conditions and is notoriously difficult to establish outside its native habitat. It thrives in dappled light and needs a specific mycorrhizal fungal relationship in the soil to survive long-term. This plant is best suited to experienced growers who can replicate meadow or woodland-edge conditions.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, keeping soil consistently moist but never waterlogged · Every 5-7 days during growing season
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Finland, France, FøRoyar, Germany, Great Britain
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Moths
Sources: trefle
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