More about the White Helleborine Blossom

White helleborine comes across Europe, from Ireland to the Middle East and North Africa.

In Flanders it is known from two sites, one in the Port of Antwerp on calcareous sandy soil. In Wallonia, something more general.

In the Netherlands they were once found in several places in southern Limburg, Noord-Brabant, in the dunes of North Holland and Drenthe, but since 1985 they have not found anymore.

White helleborine its color and shape can only be confused with the closely related pale helleborine (Cephalanthera damasonium) that a similar habitat choice. The pure white flowers and long, pointed leaves of the white helleborine are uniquely characteristic.

Confusion with the equally fragrant white-flowered Orchid (Platanthera bifolia) and eight mountain orchid (Platanthera chlorantha) is almost excluded by the shape of the flowers and the large number of leaves of the white helleborine.

White helleborine is on the Belgian Red List as "endangered". On the Dutch Red List (plant) she is "very rare" and "greatly reduced" but probably she is already gone.



Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wit_bosvogeltje

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