Their flowers are two-colored, each single flower is dark pink to dark pink-purple in the center and has a gradient towards the petal and sepal tips, with light pink, cream or white tips.

Also unlike several other Nigritella species all flower rows of the inflorescence have the same color (with no vertical gradient).

Depending on altitude they bloom from June to mid July.

[2] As of 2007 only 15 populations of the species had been discovered within the Salzkammergut portion of the Austrian Alps, in the states of Styria, Salzburg and Upper Austria.

[2] Gymandenia stiriaca was first published in 1906 as Gymnadenia rubra var stiriaca by Lily and Karl Rechinger after they had discovered a plant on the Sarstein mountain in 1904.