- Flowering period
- May - June
- Threat status ?
- Habitat
- Wet meadow
- Scientific name
- Dactylorhiza incarnata
early marsh orchid
LB: Fleeschrout Fangerwuerzel
FR: orchis incarnat
DE: Fleischfarbene Kuckucksblume, Fleischfarbener Fingerwurz
The morphological characters of the early marsh orchid are variable. The species is best recognised by its uppermost leaf growing taller than the inflorescence at the start of the flowering time. The early marsh orchid grows on calcareous, moist to swampy meadows and fens in the Gutland and Ösling.