Broad-leaved helleborine
Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- —
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Orchidaceae
Also called Weedy Orchid, Broad-leaved Helleborine
Formerly Serapias helleborine
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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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
- NW. Africa, Europe to ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Royal Horticultural Society and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Royal Horticultural Society 0.5–1 m; Wikipedia 1–1 m
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Épipactis helléborine, Épipactide helléborine, Épipactis à larges feuilles
- Dutch
- Brede wespenorchis
- Catalan
- Epipactis de fulla gran, Hel·leborina de fulles amples
- German
- Breitblättrige Stendelwurz
- root
- EPIHEL, Ealabairín
- Polish
- Kruszczyk szerokolistny
- Hebrew
- בן-חורש רחב-עלים, בן חורש רחב עלים
- Finnish
- Lehtoneidonvaippa, lehtoneidonvaippa
- Czech
- kruštík širolistý
- Danish
- Skov-hullæbe, Skov-Hullæbe
- Russian
- Дремлик лесной, Дремлик широколистный, Дремлик зимовниковый
- Norwegian Bokmål
- breiflangre, Bredflangre, Breiflangre
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Royal Horticultural Society, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Epipactis helleborine (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.