World Species : Ophrys sphegodes (Early Spider Orchid)

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Ophrys sphegodes (Early Spider Orchid)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ophrys sphegodes, commonly known as the Early Spider-orchid, is a species of orchid found on alkaline meadows and waste land. It is widespread across most of Europe and the middle East from Britain south to Portugal and east to Iran.

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Infraspecies

Attributes

Edible ^[1]	May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type ^[1]	Hermaphrodite
Lifespan ^[1]	Perennial
Pollinators ^[1]	Bees
Scent ^[1]	The flowers resemble a female insect and also emit a scent similar to female pheremones.
Structure ^[3]	Herb

Height ^[1]	18 inches (0.45 m)

Light Preference ^[2]	Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity ^[2]	Strong Base
Soil Fertility ^[2]	Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture ^[2]	Mostly Dry

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Protected Areas

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Providers

Pollinated by
Andrena flavipes (Yellow-legged Mining Bee)	^[4]
Andrena humilis	^[4]

External References

Citations

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♦ ¹Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ ²ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ ³Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ ⁴Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.

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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0