''Serapias lingua'', commonly known as tongue-orchid or the tongue ''Serapias'', is a species of

orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan plants that are found in almost every habitat on Eart ...

native to the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern ...

Habitat and distribution

''Serapias lingua'' can be found in damp meadows and open fields of Portugal, Spain, Malta, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and all the Mediterranean islands west of Crete and in western North Africa.

Flowering

''Serapias lingua'' flowers in spring to early summer with 2.5 cm flowers and then they go dormant in mid and late summer.

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* * lingua Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Orchids of Europe Flora of Malta {{Orchidoideae-stub