baltica is a subspecies of Dactylorhiza majalis.

[2] Sometimes this plant is considered as a separate species, Dactylorhiza baltica.

[3] This plant ranges from northern Poland to the Baltic states, Finland, central and northern European Russia, western and central Siberia, and Kazakhstan.

[1] The plant was first described as Orchis latifolia subsp.

In 1980 it was renamed Dactylorhiza majalis subsp.