- Flowering period
- April - July
- Threat status ?
- Habitat
- Wet meadow
- Scientific name
- Dactylorhiza sambucina
elder-flowered orchid
LB: Hielenner-Fangerwuerzel
FR: orchis sureau
DE: Holunder-Kuckucksblume
The elder-flowered orchid takes its name from the elderflower-like smell of its flowers. In our region only the yellow color variety is found, in more southern regions it can also be found together with the red color variety in one population. The elder-flowered orchid grows on acid soils in dry and fresh meadows and rough grasslands, but has been extinct in Luxembourg for a long time.