Ophrys ferrum-equinum, the horseshoe bee-orchid, is a terrestrial species of orchid native to Albania, Greece, and Turkey, including Crete and other islands of the Aegean.

[1] It owes its species name to the characteristic shape of a silver horse-shoe on the brown petal.

Two subspecies are currently recognized (May 2014):[1]

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