Chinese ground orchid
Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Rchb.f.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 33 cm
- wide
- 24 cm
Orchidaceae
Formerly Bletia gebina, Bletia hyacinthina, Bletia striata, Bletilla elegantula, and 13 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China to C. & S. JapanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 20 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 18 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, purple, white; Wikipedia magenta, pink
- Coldest it survives
- -19.4 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -28.9 °C; Wikipedia -10 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Chinese
- 白及, 白芨, 白哀（白及）
- Korean
- 자란
- Spanish
- Orquídea urna
- French
- Orchidée jacinthe
- Vietnamese
- Bạch cập
- Finnish
- Mikadonkämmen
- Upper Sorbian
- Smužkata bletila
- Japanese
- シラン
- Polish
- Bletilla pasiasta
- Simplified Chinese
- 白及
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Bletilla striata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.