Orchids
The largest flower family, from vanilla to the moth orchid.
Ghost orchidDendrophylax lindenii
A rare leafless orchid with white flowers that seem to float in air
🇨🇺 Cuba · Wildflower
Fire star orchidEpidendrum radicans
A bright orange orchid that roots along its whole stem
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Orchid
Red DisaDisa uniflora
A striking red orchid from the mountain streams of South Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Dove orchidPeristeria elata
An orchid with white flowers shaped like a dove, Panama's national flower
🇵🇦 Panama and 4 more · 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
Multi-flowered AeridesAerides multiflora
A fragrant orchid with many waxy flowers hanging in long sprays
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 6 more · Wildflower
Cooktown orchidDendrobium bigibbum
A lilac-purple orchid from Queensland, the floral emblem of the state
🇦🇺 Australia and 1 more · Wildflower
Vanda falcata
A small fragrant orchid from East Asia, prized for its white flowers and many forms
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Wildflower
Darwin’s orchidAngraecum sesquipedale
The Madagascan orchid with a long nectar spur and a famous moth pollinator
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Wildflower
Cypripedium tibeticum
A high-altitude slipper orchid with deep maroon to pink flowers
🇨🇳 China and 1 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
Bee orchidOphrys apifera
A wild orchid with flowers that mimic the look and scent of a female bee
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more · Wildflower
Leopard orchidAnsellia africana
A large African orchid with spotted yellow flowers and basket-like roots
Ansellia africana · Orchid
Miltonia
Medium-large Brazilian orchids with showy, long-lasting flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 more · Orchid
Cattleya purpurata
A Brazilian orchid with large, fragrant flowers in many color forms
🇧🇷 Brazil · Orchid
Showy lady's slipperCypripedium reginae
A rare pink and white wild orchid of northern North America
🇨🇦 Canada and 1 more · Wildflower
Curled OncidiumOncidium alexandrae
A cool-growing Colombian orchid with crisped white or rose flowers
🇨🇴 Colombia · Orchid
Cattleya warscewiczii
The Colombian orchid with the largest flowers in its genus
🇨🇴 Colombia · Orchid
Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim
The national orchid of Singapore, known for year-round blooming
🇸🇬 Singapore · Garden flower
Slipper orchidCypripedium
Hardy northern orchids with a pouch-shaped lower petal
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Yellow fringed orchidPlatanthera ciliaris
A tall, bright orange orchid of wetlands and pine savannas in eastern North America
🇺🇸 United States · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Ghost orchid: Mick Fournier / HBI Producers of Fine Orchids [1], CC BY 2.5, source
- Fire star orchid: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source
- Red Disa: Michael Gäbler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dove orchid: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum: Secundum naturam, Public domain, source
- Veitch's Masdevallia: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Multi-flowered Aerides: William Roxburgh (1751–1815), Public domain, source
- Cooktown orchid: No machine-readable author provided. John Hill assumed (based on copyr, CC BY 2.5, source
- Vanda falcata: snotch, CC BY 2.0, source
- Darwin’s orchid: No machine-readable author provided. Jeffdelonge assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cypripedium tibeticum: Patricia Harding, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Common spotted orchid: Uoaei1, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bee orchid: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Leopard orchid: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Miltonia: Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cattleya purpurata: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, source
- Showy lady's slipper: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Curled Oncidium: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cattleya warscewiczii: Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Public domain, source
- Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim: Calvin Teo ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Slipper orchid: Beatriz Moisset, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Yellow fringed orchid: NC Orchid, CC BY 2.0, source