Orchidaceae FAMILY

Dactylorhiza viridis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

3/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Dactylorhiza viridis is a herbaceous perennial growing from a tuberous rootstock; it produces a single thick, fleshy, flowering stem usually aound 10 - 30cm tall, occasionally to 40cm[ 1866 Title Medicinal Orchids of Asia Publication Author Eng Soon Teoh Website https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24274-3 Publisher Springer International Publishing Switzerland Year 2016 ISBN 978-3-319-24272-9 Description , 2160 Title Illustrated Flora of Tajikistan and adjacent areas Publication Author Nowak. A. & Nobis M. Editors) Publisher Polish Botanical Society, Warsaw, Poland Year 2020 ISBN 978-83-954123-5-6 Description An excellent book, with one or more good photographs and terse information on 1,864 species of plants from Tajikistan - and it is made available free on a Creative Commons licence. ]. A popular herbal medicine in the Himalayas and China, the plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeWidespread throughout the subarctic and subalpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere

HabitatOpen grassland in upper montane Betula/Rhodendron/Lonicera fores at elevations from 3,500 - 4,500 metres in the Himalayas[ 1866 Title Medicinal Orchids of Asia Publication Author Eng Soon Teoh Website https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24274-3 Publisher Springer International Publishing Switzerland Year 2016 ISBN 978-3-319-24272-9 Description ]