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Himantoglossum caprinum

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Like a larger version of H. hircinum, flowers usually bright purple with the middle lobe of the lip at least 10cm long and deeply forked. Eastern Europe, Turkey and Caucasia, in woodland, scrub and grassy forest margins on limestone at 200-1400m.