Purple and violet flowers
Lavender, iris, wisteria, jacaranda and orchids.
Dove orchidPeristeria elata
An orchid with white flowers shaped like a dove, Panama's national flower
🇵🇦 Panama and 4 more · Orchid
Blue orchidVanda coerulea
A rare orchid with long-lasting bluish purple flowers from Northeast India and Yunnan
🇮🇳 India and 2 more · Orchid
Waling-walingVanda sanderiana
A rare orchid known as the 'Queen of Philippine flowers'
🇵🇭 Philippines · Orchid
Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum
A Southeast Asian slipper orchid with blue-green leaves and striped flowers
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Wildflower
Veitch's MasdevalliaMasdevallia veitchiana
A large orange Andean orchid with iridescent purple hairs
🇵🇪 Peru · Orchid
Cooktown orchidDendrobium bigibbum
A lilac-purple orchid from Queensland, the floral emblem of the state
🇦🇺 Australia and 1 more · Wildflower
Grammatophyllum
A group of rainforest orchids with striking green and purple-marked blooms
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 more · Wildflower
Fowlie's PaphiopedilumPaphiopedilum fowliei
A rare slipper orchid found only in Palawan’s moist lowland forests
🇵🇭 Philippines · Wildflower
Unscented dendrobiumDendrobium anosmum
A Southeast Asian orchid with large purple, raspberry-scented flowers
🇵🇭 Philippines and 3 more · Wildflower
Cymbidium faberi
A wild orchid with pale green, yellow, or purple-tinged flowers from Asia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Wildflower
Eulophia
A large group of mostly ground-dwelling orchids from Africa and Asia
Eulophia · Wildflower
Grey orchidVanda tessellata
A yellow and brown checkered orchid from the Indian subcontinent to Indochina
🇮🇳 India · Wildflower
Paphiopedilum insigne
A rare slipper orchid from the Khasi hills with helmet-shaped yellow flowers
🇮🇳 India and 2 more · Wildflower
Common spotted orchidDactylorhiza fuchsii
A wild orchid with spotted leaves and pale purple flowers across Europe and Asia
🇮🇪 Ireland and 5 more · Wildflower
Lycaste
A genus of orchids with pleated leaves and fragrant, spotted blooms
🇲🇽 Mexico · Orchid
Bee orchidOphrys apifera
A wild orchid with flowers that mimic the look and scent of a female bee
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more · Wildflower
Noble dendrobiumDendrobium nobile
A fragrant orchid with waxy blooms from the Himalayas and southern China
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Orchid
Miltonia
Medium-large Brazilian orchids with showy, long-lasting flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 more · Orchid
Catasetum
A genus of unusual, showy epiphytic orchids from the Americas
🇧🇷 Brazil and 7 more · Wildflower
Cattleya purpurata
A Brazilian orchid with large, fragrant flowers in many color forms
🇧🇷 Brazil · Orchid
Dendrobium
A vast genus of orchids found from the Himalayas to Australia and the Pacific
🇦🇺 Australia and 7 more · Wildflower
Kovach's PhragmipediumPhragmipedium kovachii
A large pink-and-purple orchid from Peruvian cloud forests
🇵🇪 Peru · Wildflower
Odontoglossum
A cool-growing cloud forest orchid genus, now folded into Oncidium
🇬🇾 Guyana · Orchid
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Dove orchid: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blue orchid: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Waling-waling: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum: Secundum naturam, Public domain, source
- Dancing-lady orchid: Eric in SF, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Veitch's Masdevallia: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cooktown orchid: No machine-readable author provided. John Hill assumed (based on copyr, CC BY 2.5, source
- Grammatophyllum: Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) del. et lith. Description by William Jac, Public domain, source
- Unscented dendrobium: sunoochi, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cymbidium faberi: 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Eulophia: Atamari, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Grey orchid: Designer:M. Hart - Engraver: J. Watts, Public domain, source
- Paphiopedilum insigne: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common spotted orchid: Uoaei1, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lycaste: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bee orchid: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Noble dendrobium: Maja Dumat, CC BY 2.0, source
- Miltonia: Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Catasetum: Andrew Z. Colvin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cattleya purpurata: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, source
- Dendrobium: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kovach's Phragmipedium: Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, source