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Dactylorhiza purpurella; photograph Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAMike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Dactylorhiza purpurella (T.Stephenson & T.A.Stephenson) Soó

Orchidaceae · Denmark, Føroyar +4

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Dactylorhiza purpurella, photograph Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDactylorhiza purpurella, photograph Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 3 photographs ›

Summary

Dactylorhiza purpurella, the northern marsh orchid, is an orchid native to Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dactylorhiza purpurella", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeDenmark, Føroyar, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Netherlands · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Dactylorhiza 11 in the reference

Dactylorhiza aristata Dactylorhiza aristata Key Flower Photo: CC0, author not statedDactylorhiza elata Dactylorhiza elata Stately Dactylorhiza Photo: CC BY, Jens-Christian SvenningDactylorhiza foliosa Dactylorhiza foliosa Richly-Leaved Dactylorhiza Photo: CC BY, Paul Dufour Dactylorhiza fuchsii Orchidaceae Dactylorhiza incarnata Dactylorhiza incarnata Early marsh-orchid Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicholas WeiDactylorhiza maculata Dactylorhiza maculata Heath spotted-orchid Photo: CC BY, Anwen EvansDactylorhiza majalis Dactylorhiza majalis Marsh orchid Photo: CC BY, Katrin SimonDactylorhiza romana Dactylorhiza romana Roman Orchid Photo: CC0, author not statedDactylorhiza sambucina Dactylorhiza sambucina Elder-flowered Orchid Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldDactylorhiza urvilleana Dactylorhiza urvilleana Urville’s Marsh Orchid Photo: CC BY, Yannick BrenzDactylorhiza viridis Dactylorhiza viridis Frog orchid Photo: CC BY, Antoine Thivolle

Names & registers

Also known as Dactylorchis purpurella; Dactylorhiza majalis var. purpurella; Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. purpurella; Orchis purpurella. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(T.Stephenson & T.A.Stephenson) Soó
Native to
Denmark, Føroyar, Great Britain +3
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Dactylorhiza purpurella (T.Stephenson & T.A.Stephenson) Soó (plant_name_id 55540), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 626660-1, POWO 626660-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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