Summary description from Wikipedia:

Orchis purpurea in languages:

Bulgarian

Пурпурен салеп

Croatian

Grimizni kaćun

Czech

vstavač nachový

Danish

Stor gøgeurt

Dutch

Purperorchis

English

Lady Orchid

English

Brown Orchid

English

Old-woman's Orchid

French

orchis pourpre

German

Purpur-Knabenkraut

German

Purpurknabenkraut

Hungarian

bíboros kosbor

Italian

Orchide maggiore

Italian

Orchidea maggiore

Polish

storczyk purpurowy

Russian

Ятрышник пурпурный

Slovene

škrlatnordeča kukavica

Swedish

stornycklar

Ukrainian

Зозулинець пурпуровий

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Parent Taxon

• Orchis

Sibling Taxa

• Orchis adenocheila
• Orchis anthropophora
• Orchis galilaea
• Orchis italica
• Orchis militaris
• Orchis punctulata
• Orchis purpurea
• Orchis simia
• Orchis x bivonae
• Orchis x macra
• Orchis × angusticruris
• Orchis × bergonii
• Orchis × beyrichii
• Orchis × hybrida
• Orchis × spuria
• Orchis × wulffiana

Child Taxa

• Orchis purpurea caucasica
• Orchis purpurea purpurea

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