Image of Orchis purpurea ssp. purpurea

Description:

Slo.: krlatnordea kukavica - syn.: Orchis fusca Jacq., Orchis maxima K. Koch - Habitat: grass overgrown sandy semiruderal road side and slightly inside wood edge next to the road, calcareous terrain, full sun as well as in half shade, elevation 160 m (520 feet), average precipitations 1.000 - 1.200 mm/year, average temperature 13 - 15 deg C, submediterranean phytogeographical region. - Substratum: sandy soil. - Comment: Growing in a large group of more than ten magnificent plants, some up to 80 cm tall, all along the road and in the neighboring wood edge. - Protected according to 'Uredba o zavarovanih prostoiveih rastlinskih vrstah' Url. RS, t. 46/2004 (Regulation of protection of wild growing plants, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, No.:46/2004). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by 'V' representing a vulnerable species. - Ref.: (1) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske, Prirunik za odreivanje bilja, kolska Knjiga, Zgreb, II. izdanje (2002), p 463. (2) H. Baumann, S. Kuenkele, R. Lorenz, Orchideen Europas, Ulmer (2006), p 244. (3) O. Sebald, S. Seybold, G. Philippi, A. Werz, Die Farn- und Bltenpflanzen Baden-Wrttembergs, Ulmer, Band 8. (1998), p 386. (4) H. Kretzschmar, Die Orchideen Deutschlands und angrenzender Lander, Quelle & Meyer (2008), p 214. (5) B. Dolinar, Kukavievke v Sloveniji (Orchids in Slovenia - in Slovene), Pipinova Knjiga (2015), p 153.