Some wild orchids of Germany

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Come with me on a walk through open grasslands and forests in late spring and early summer. Orobanche are saprophytic plants and not orchids, even if they may look like. Thus they can grow in dark forests. Interestingly Melampyrum is semi-saprophytic and belongs to the Orobanchaceae.
And for the Orchis and/or Dactylorhiza I cannot remember the exact classification.