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| | Epipactis helleborine |
 | | Epipactis helleborine is an orchid species native to Europe which has become naturalized in much of the northeastern United States and Canada, to the western Great Lakes region, and moving westward. |
 | | Epipactis helleborine grows from an underground rhizome, a foot or more below the soil surface. |
 | | The genus Epipactis contains about 35 species world-wide, with distribution throughout Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, throughout Asia, and one species, Epipactis gigantea, which is native to the western United States. |
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