A very tall Broadleaved Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine) in Glenfarne Forest, Co Leitrim, complete with happy harvestman #Wildflowerhour #HelleborineChallenge #botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildorchid @npwsireland.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social
Very pleased to find ~a dozen Marsh Helleborines locally in Laois yesterday. #wildfowerhour #helleborineChallenge
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social I totally missed the #HelleborineChallenge on Sunday. My belated offer is some very tiny green-flowered helleborine, clearly suffering from drought. Central Bedfordshire
A close up of the flower spike with additional black fly
The whole plant showing the leaves. Growing in very bare ground under mature willow
A close up of a paler plant
A selection of ? broad-leaved helleborines a day late for #HelleborineChallenge from @metoffice.gov.uk HQ. Additional #WildflowerID from @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social very welcome. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
A day late posting this group of urban Broad-leaved Helleborines in a Leeds wildlife haven. Right on the edge of a path but staying discrete.
#WildflowerHour #HelleborineChallenge
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For #WildfloweHour #HelleborineChallenge, Epipactis dunensis and the special Lindisfarne version from a fantastic Northumbrian coast @bsbibotany.bsky.social meeting this weekend. Helleborines just one of many interesting species seen.
A bit late for the #wildflowerhour #helleborinechallenge but here is a Broad-leaved Helleborine photographed in Auldhouse Park, Glasgow earlier this week.
6/7/25 Cumbria - Today's tour of #HuttonRoof for @mariposanature.bsky.social saw a great variety of Dark Red #Helleborines (Epipactis atrorubens), my favourite having pale flowers with bright yellow lateral petals #HelleborineChallenge #Wildflowerhour #Orchid #Orchids @bsbibotany.bsky.social
What an amazing #WildflowerHour tonight & it was so lovely to see so many folks joining in with the #HelleborineChallenge an excellent idea by @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social, thank you Richard! See you all again next week & happy flower spotting!
#Helleborinechallenge #WildFlowerHour
An attempt to show the differences of leaf edges of Broad leaved Helleborines and Green-flowered Helleborines. Green flowered are slightly thinner so the focus isn’t great.
A fabulous #WildFlowerHour!
Many thanks to everyone who shared pix this evening & a special thank you to @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social who suggested this week's #HelleborineChallenge.
Have a great week and keep an eye out for next week's @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge!
From Gartnanoul , Co Cavan, Broad-leaved Helleborine 15 plants along section of the path . @bsbiireland.bsky.social Do they appear after disturbance ? Or is the light?
#helleborineChallenge #wildflowerhour
some insect casualties in the flower, maybe something else is predatory on site
Marsh Helleborines at Saltfleetby/Theddlethorpe NNR between the showers this afternoon. #HelleborineChallenge #wildflowerhour
Green flowered Helleborine not strictly speaking properly in flower yet in Suffolk #wildflowerhour #Helleborinechallenge
2 spikes of Broad-Leaved Helleborine in a rather dark woodland in North Cornwall today. This species is uncommon in Cornwall, so it was nice to see them. Last recorded nearby in 1998! #HelleborineChallenge #WildflowerHour
Epipactis helleborine
Ophrys kotschyi, seen on Orchids of Crete, © Jon Dunn
Orchis quadripunctata, seen on Orchids of Crete © Dr Richard Bate
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Photo, Epipactis helleborine flower stem showing green buds, against a wooden shed wall
Broad Leaved Helleborine plant, turned up in a wild garden. Also leaves of Agrimony, Bugle and Creeping Jenny
Aha! The flowers haven’t opened in time for the #WildflowerHour #HelleborineChallenge, but this Epipactis has turned up again, presumably seeded into the garden from adjacent woodland.
Only a few submissions for #WildflowerHour this week:
Marsh helleborine with Red soldier beetle also for #HelleborineChallenge
Only a few submissions for #WildflowerHour this week:
Marsh helleborine with an Essex skipper, also for #HelleborineChallenge
#Wildflowerhourchallenge #Helleborinechallenge My final helleborine of the week, the gorgeous Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris) seen on the Fylde Coast.
I've enjoyed two species of helleborine this week, both new for me and couldn't have been more different!
Green-flowered Helleborine, subtle, delicate, hidden in plain sight in wooded shade.
And thousands of showy Marsh Helleborine, Braunton Burrows, Devon.
#wildflowerhour
#helleborinechallenge
Only a few submissions for #WildflowerHour this week:
A coterie (collective noun for orchids) of Marsh helleborine for #HelleborineChallenge
#Wildflowrhourchallenge #Helleborinechallenge Dune Helleborine (Epipactis dunensis) found on the Fylde Coast this week.
#DarkRedHelleborine and #MarshHelleborine @rspb.bsky.social #Hodbarrow #Cumbria last week. A wonderful nature reserve probably best known for its tern colony, but it is also a much underrated botanical gem. #HelleborineChallenge #wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour #Helleborinechallenge Second find of the week was Dark Red Helleborine (Epipactis atrorubens) found in North Lancashire.
Sadly no opportunity this week to look for epipactis helleborines, but here’s a white helleborine from a few weeks back, plus a spike of hedge woundwort for #WildFlowerHour #HelleborineChallenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Marh Helleborine, sharing it's space with other elegant- moisture-loving companions like Grass-of-Parnassus and Variegated Horsetail
#HelleborineChallenge
#WildflowerHour
Look at these bruisers! Broad Leaved Helleborines ...and a wasp with a pollinia stuck to its head. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Helleborinechallenge Had to go South for these. Ours aren't in flower yet in VC38. @ukorchids.bsky.social
