Orchids gone wild!

The mention of the word "orchids" often sparks a great deal of curiosity, as our French imagination conjures up images of cultivated tropical flowers. However, orchids are found almost everywhere in the world, and constitute the largest family in the plant kingdom, with over 30,000 species. There are 160 species of wild orchid in France. Orchids have adapted to all kinds of environments:
Scrubland and maquis: orphys, serapias.

Dry grasslands: orphys, orchis.

Flood-meadows and marshes: Anacamptis palustris.

Forests: helleborine, cephalanthera.

Alpine pastures: gymnadenia, globe orchid, pseudorchis albida.