Hemipilia cucullata(L.) Y.Tang, H.Peng & T.Yukawa

WFO wfo-1000035611 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hemipilia cucullata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. a Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-15 / obs. 151390892
Hemipilia cucullata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. b Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151408951
Hemipilia cucullata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. c Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151405525
Hemipilia cucullata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. d Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151335188
Hemipilia cucullata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. e Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151337673
Hemipilia cucullata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. f Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151337780
Hemipilia cucullata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. g Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151335636
Hemipilia cucullata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. h Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151337487

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Hemipilia cucullata is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Sakhalin, Tibet, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, East Himalaya, Nepal, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Poland, Ukraine AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiSakhalinTibetTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaEast HimalayaNepalBaltic StatesBelarusCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaPolandUkraine Korea
Native distribution of Hemipilia cucullata, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Sakhalin SAK
Tibet CHT
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
Poland POL
Ukraine UKR
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP

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 135 in flower of 193 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Hemipilia cucullata 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. 135 of 193 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 1,996 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -25.9 °C -19.3 °C -11.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.9 °C 23.4 °C 25.2 °C
Annual rainfall 378 mm 481 mm 690 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 28 mm 65 mm 105 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,996 research-grade observations of Hemipilia cucullata 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 23 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.

  • Coeloglossum alpinum Schur
  • Coeloglossum purpureum Schur
  • Gymnadenia cucullata (L.) Rich.
  • Gymnadenia cucullata subsp. purpurea (Schur) E.G.Camus
  • Gymnadenia cucullata var. maculata Nakai & Kitag.
  • Gymnadenia cucullata var. variegata Y.N.Lee
  • Gymnadenia monophylla Ames & Schltr.
  • Gymnadenia pseudodiphylax Kraenzl.
  • Gymnadenia scabrilinguis Kraenzl.
  • Habenaria cucullata (L.) Höfft ex Ledeb.
  • Himantoglossum cucullatum (L.) Rchb.
  • Neottianthe angustifolia K.Y.Lang
  • Neottianthe cucullata (L.) Schltr.
  • Neottianthe cucullata f. albiflora P.Y.Fu, S.Z.Liu
  • Neottianthe cucullata f. maculata Nakai & Kitag.
  • Neottianthe cucullata f. variegata (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim
  • Neottianthe maculata (Nakai & Kitag.) Nakai & Kitag.
  • Neottianthe monophylla (Ames & Schltr.) Schltr.
  • Neottianthe pseudodiphylax (Kraenzl.) Schltr.
  • Neottianthe pseudodiphylax var. monophylla (Ames & Schltr.) Soó
  • Orchis cucullata L.
  • Peristylus purpureus Schur
  • Ponerorchis cucullata (L.) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin

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.