Anacamptis palustris(Jacq.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

WFO wfo-0000968486 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anacamptis palustris, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199154781
Anacamptis palustris, photographed by Michael Andresek
fig. b Michael Andresek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170721324
Anacamptis palustris, photographed by Gergely Nigg
fig. c Gergely Nigg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63685334
Anacamptis palustris, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. d Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100099048
Anacamptis palustris, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. e Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 61735354
Anacamptis palustris, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. f Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 29067104
Anacamptis palustris, photographed by Yuliana Leshchenko
fig. g Yuliana Leshchenko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204944232
Anacamptis palustris, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. h Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174125386

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Native range 39 botanical countries

Regions where Anacamptis palustris is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqKazakhstanSaudi ArabiaTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanAlbaniaAustriaBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Baleares
Native distribution of Anacamptis palustris, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Cyprus CYP
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Saudi Arabia SAU
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 164 in flower of 178 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Anacamptis palustris observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 164 of 178 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,116 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.4 °C -3.3 °C 4.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.8 °C 26.1 °C 29.5 °C
Annual rainfall 416 mm 602 mm 1,414 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 56 mm 103 mm 277 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,116 research-grade observations of Anacamptis palustris that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 43 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anacamptis laxiflora subsp. elegans (Heuff.) Kuropatkin & Efimov
  • Anacamptis laxiflora subsp. palustris (Jacq.) Kuropatkin & Efimov
  • Anacamptis robusta (T.Stephenson) R.M.Bateman
  • Herorchis elegans (Heuff.) D.Tyteca & E.Klein
  • Herorchis palustris (Jacq.) D.Tyteca & E.Klein
  • Herorchis robusta (T.Stephenson) D.Tyteca & E.Klein
  • Orchis elegans Heuff.
  • Orchis elegans Heuff. ex Rochel
  • Orchis elegans var. platychila (K.Koch) P.Schäf.
  • Orchis festiva Heuff. ex Rochel
  • Orchis germanorum Moritzi
  • Orchis heuffeliana Schur
  • Orchis laxiflora C.A.Mey.
  • Orchis laxiflora f. quadriloba Bréb.
  • Orchis laxiflora lus. alba Rupp ex W.Zimm.
  • Orchis laxiflora lus. carnea E.G.Camus
  • Orchis laxiflora lus. rosea Rupp ex W.Zimm.
  • Orchis laxiflora subsp. elegans (Heuff.) Soó
  • Orchis laxiflora subsp. palustris (Jacq.) Corb.
  • Orchis laxiflora subsp. palustris (Jacq.) Bonnier & Layens
  • Orchis laxiflora subsp. robusta (T.Stephenson) H.Sund.
  • Orchis laxiflora var. elegans (Heuff.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Orchis laxiflora var. mediterranea (Guss.) Schltr.
  • Orchis laxiflora var. mediterranea (Guss.) D.Rivera & López Vélez

and 19 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.