Orchidaceae is a monocot family of herbaceous perennials that includes terrestrial, mycoheterotrophic, lithophytic, and epiphytic species. It is one of the largest families amongst angiosperms with 705 genera and 29,481 species distributed worldwide. In India, orchids are mainly found in NorthEastern Himalayas, NorthWestern Himalayas and the peninsular regions on the mainland, and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. NorthWestern Himalayan states, including L.adakh, U.T. (which was a part of the former state Jammu and Kashmir), harbour many orchid species. Various plant explorers from the past a few decades have reported the occurrence of a few orchids from the Ladakh. In the present study, different habitats of Ladakh were explored for the evaluation of diversity and distribution of orchid species. Seven terrestrial species namely Dactylorhiza hatagirea, D. kafiriana, D. umbrosa, D. viridis, Epipactis hel/eborine, E. royleana, and Herminium monorchis growing within an altitudinal range of 1500-4150 m amsl were recorded.