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.
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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