Red Helleborine

Cephalanthera rubra

Red Helleborine is an orchid found in Europe, north Africa and parts of Asia. Although reasonably common in parts of its range, this Cephalanthera has always been one of the rarest orchids in Britain.
Cephalanthera rubra Rotes Waldvögelein  Cephalanthera rubra,Geotagged,Red Helleborine,Summer,Switzerland

Distribution

The Red Helleborine is found throughout most of Europe, east to the Urals and as far as 60 degrees north. It is however rare in Britain, the Low Countries and western France. It also occurs in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and in various parts of southern Asia as far east as Iran.

Red Helleborine is a very rare plant in Britain. It is found only at the following sites:
⤷  Workman's Wood, Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire
⤷  Hawkley Warren, Hampshire, where it was first found in 1986.
⤷  Windsor Hill SSSI, a woodland just to the east of Princes Risborough in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the species was recorded from single sites in Somerset, Sussex and Kent, and a second Hampshire site . The species was also recorded at additional Gloucestershire sites , and persisted at some of these into the 1970s.
Cephalanthra rubra Rotes Waldvögelein The first one seen this season Cephalanthera rubra,Geotagged,Red Helleborine,Spring,Switzerland

Habitat

The Red Helleborine is found throughout most of Europe, east to the Urals and as far as 60 degrees north. It is however rare in Britain, the Low Countries and western France. It also occurs in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and in various parts of southern Asia as far east as Iran.

Red Helleborine is a very rare plant in Britain. It is found only at the following sites:
⤷  Workman's Wood, Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire
⤷  Hawkley Warren, Hampshire, where it was first found in 1986.
⤷  Windsor Hill SSSI, a woodland just to the east of Princes Risborough in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the species was recorded from single sites in Somerset, Sussex and Kent, and a second Hampshire site . The species was also recorded at additional Gloucestershire sites , and persisted at some of these into the 1970s.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderAsparagales
FamilyOrchidaceae
GenusCephalanthera
SpeciesC. rubra