*Epipactis helleborine (Linnaeus) Crantz. Common name: Broad-leaved Helleborine. Phenology: Jun-Sep. Habitat: Mesic and dry-mesic forests, cultivated garden-beds. Distribution: Native of Europe. This species is becoming very common in the ne. United States and se. Canada.
Origin/Endemic status: Europe
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, FNA26, Il, K1, K3, K4, Mi, Mo1, NE, NY, Pa, Va, WV, Correll (1950), Luer (1975); = Epipactis latifolia (L.) All. – G; = n/a – RAB, Tat
Links to other floras: = Epipactis helleborine - FNA26
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: UPL
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: UPL
- Great Plains: FACU
- Midwest: FACU
- Northcentral & Northeast: UPL
Heliophily ⓘ: 4
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect perennial of moist and dry-moist forests and cultivated garden beds. Native of Europe.
Stems: Stem unbranched, light green, covered in short hairs.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile-clasping, oval to lance-elliptic, 1 1/2-6 in. long, with prominent parallel veins and slightly wavy edges, smooth.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers 3-50 mostly on one side of a terminal, spike-like raceme; pale yellowish-green to pink; 1/2-3/4 in. wide; consisting of a lower lip-petal forming a bowl with constriction near the tip (often purplish-brown on the inside), 2 broadly oval lateral petals that flare outward above a yellowish center column and 3 light green sepals with purplish streaks forming a triangle behind the flower.
Fruits: Fruit a ribbed, ellipsoid capsule.
Comments: This species is becoming very common in the ne. United States and se. Canada.
Height: 10-30 in.
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description: Erect perennial of moist and dry-moist forests and cultivated garden beds. Native of Europe.
stems: Stem unbranched, light green, covered in short hairs.
leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile-clasping, oval to lance-elliptic, 1 1/2-6 in. long, with prominent parallel veins and slightly wavy edges, smooth.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers 3-50 mostly on one side of a terminal, spike-like raceme; pale yellowish-green to pink; 1/2-3/4 in. wide; consisting of a lower lip-petal forming a bowl with constriction near the tip (often purplish-brown on the inside), 2 broadly oval lateral petals that flare outward above a yellowish center column and 3 light green sepals with purplish streaks forming a triangle behind the flower.
fruits: Fruit a ribbed, ellipsoid capsule.
comments: This species is becoming very common in the ne. United States and se. Canada.
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