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ORIGIN: Found from Morocco, Algeria, Spain, France, Great Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary and Yugoslavia in damp dune slacks, peat bogs and damp grasslands at elevations up to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 hairy, fusiform roots and giving rise to many, basal, cauline, linear-lanceolate, almost ditichous leaves that blooms on an erect, leafy, 6 to 12 [15 to 30 cm] long, terminal, many flowered, spicate inflorescence with fragrant flowers occurring in the late spring and mid summer.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).