Pseudorchis albida(L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve

small white orchidvanilla-scented bog orchid

WFO wfo-0000284199 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pseudorchis albida, photographed by agosti
fig. a agosti, CC0 1.0 / 2021-07-23 / obs. 145769158
Pseudorchis albida, photographed by agosti
fig. b agosti, CC0 1.0 / obs. 144626656
Pseudorchis albida, photographed by agosti
fig. c agosti, CC0 1.0 / obs. 144628040
Pseudorchis albida, photographed by agosti
fig. d agosti, CC0 1.0 / obs. 144460621
Pseudorchis albida, photographed by agosti
fig. e agosti, CC0 1.0 / obs. 144483403
Pseudorchis albida, photographed by Elias
fig. f Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139297875
Pseudorchis albida, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. g Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138338592
Pseudorchis albida, photographed by Elias
fig. h Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138341593

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Pseudorchis albida is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Sakhalin, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, Føroyar, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, North European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Greenland, Newfoundland, Québec AltayBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskKamchatkaKhabarovskKrasnoyarskSakhalinTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaAlbaniaAustriaBelarusBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIcelandIrelandItalyNorth European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraineGreenlandNewfoundlandQuébec Føroyar
Native distribution of Pseudorchis albida, 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
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
Finland FIN
Føroyar FOR
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Iceland ICE
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
North European Russia RUN
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Sakhalin SAK
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
Greenland GNL NORTHERN AMERICA
Newfoundland NFL
Québec QUE

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 305 in flower of 321 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Pseudorchis albida 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. 305 of 321 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.

Also published as 49 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.

  • Bicchia albida (L.) Parl.
  • Bicchia albida var. tricuspis (Beck) E.G.Camus
  • Blephariglottis albiflora Raf.
  • Chamorchis albida (L.) Dumort.
  • Coeloglossum albidum (L.) Hartm.
  • Entaticus albidus (L.) Gray
  • Entaticus albidus var. major Gray
  • Gymnadenia albida (L.) Rich.
  • Gymnadenia albida f. minor Zapał.
  • Gymnadenia albida f. subalpina Neuman
  • Gymnadenia albida f. tricuspis (Beck) Neuman
  • Gymnadenia albida subsp. straminea (Fernald) Løjtnant
  • Gymnadenia albida var. borensis Zapał.
  • Gymnadenia albida var. tricuspis Beck
  • Gymnadenia straminea (Fernald) P.Delforge
  • Habenaria albida (L.) R.Br.
  • Habenaria albida var. straminea (Fernald) F.J.A.Morris & E.A.Eames
  • Habenaria densiflora Schur
  • Habenaria straminea Fernald
  • Habenaria transsilvanica Schur
  • Leucorchis albida (L.) E.Mey.
  • Leucorchis albida f. breviloba (Schltr.) Soó
  • Leucorchis albida f. lucida (Fuss) Soó
  • Leucorchis albida f. subalpina (Neuman) Soó

and 25 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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.