Red Helleborine
cephalanthera rubra latin

The various species of orchids such as the red helleborine have become increasingly rare.

Red Helleborine is a very rare plant in Britain.

More rare is dark red helleborine.

Hawkley Warren, an important site for Red Helleborine, borders the village.

It is one of three extant British locations for the Red Helleborine orchid.

Other notable species include red helleborine, marsh helleborine and rock whitebeam.

Rare plants include the red helleborine, bird's-nest orchid and knothole yoke-moss.

The Red Helleborine is found throughout most of Europe, east to the Urals and as far as 60 degrees north.

Plantlife designated the Dark Red Helleborine as the county flower for Banffshire, Scotland.

Plants including rigid buckler fern, angular Solomon's seal, limestone fern, and dark red helleborine are to be found on the pavement.

It is of particular importance as one of only three extant sites in Britain for the Red Helleborine Cephalanthera rubra.

Cephalanthera rubra, known as Red Helleborine, is an orchid found in Europe, North Africa and southwest Asia.

A few minutes later, Tina found a group of Herminium monochis (musk orchid) and then Epipatis atrorubens (dark red helleborine).

The Dark Red Helleborine favours warm and dry locations, with soil basic to neutral in pH, nutrient-poor, and permeable.

Where there are outcrops of limestone on the surface a number of scarce plants can be found such as prickly sedge, dark red helleborine and rigid buckler-fern.

It also supports a rich variety of plants, including red broomrape, dark red helleborine, mountain avens and numerous other saxifrages, orchids, alpines and ferns.

Besser : Dark Red Helleborine, Royal Helleborine (Europe to Caucasus).

On the Streckelsberg: Common Twayblade, Lesser Butterfly-orchid, Bird's-nest Orchid and Red helleborine.

When used for flowers, red often refers to purplish (red deadnettle, red clover, red helleborine) or pink (red campion, red valerian) colors.

On some hidden parts of the reserve orchids like the dark red helleborine (Epipactis atrorubens) the fly orchid (Ophrys insectifera) and many others grow year by year.

The quarry holds one of the largest British populations of the dark red helleborine, Epipactis atrorubens; a survey in 2010 found nearly 1700 flowering spikes of this nationally rare species.

The higher moorland above Fron-dêg, known as the Fron-dêg Flat, has typical moorland vegetation of heather, bilberry and sedge; rarer plants include the dark red helleborine.

The site's primary interest lies in the fact that it is one of three sites in Britain where Red Helleborine Cephalanthera rubra remains; this orchid grows on a north-west facing slope.

One year I spent a summer looking at all the species of orchid I could find, and I went to the Great Orme near Llandudno to look at dark red helleborine, which are very rare.

Like many orchids, the red helleborine is capable of growing and flowering in quite deep shade and, if conditions become too adverse, it is able to lead a subterranean existence for many years until conditions become more favourable.

Cephalanthera rubra Rich.

It is of particular importance as one of only three extant sites in Britain for the Red Helleborine Cephalanthera rubra.

The site's primary interest lies in the fact that it is one of three sites in Britain where Red Helleborine Cephalanthera rubra remains; this orchid grows on a north-west facing slope.

Vascular plant species of Leningrad Oblast listed in the red data book of Russia are Botrychium simplex, Cephalanthera rubra, Cypripedium calceolus, Epipogium aphyllum, Lobelia dortmanna, Myrica gale, Ophrys insectifera, Orchis militaris, Pulsatilla pratensis, Pulsatilla vernalis.