British wildflowers

[shelagh]

Also a single plant I didn't expect to find.

[ian mcdonald]

Shelagh, your orchids look like common spotted. The central "tooth" is usually separate and slightly longer than the ones on either side. The leaves are not always spotted.

[shelagh]

You are right about the leaves Ian some were spotted and some weren't.  It was lovely to see them and worth the sunburnt neck.

[Matt T]

The machair is burgeoning with flowers right now. This is a great year for orchids, with the pyramidal orchids (Anacamptis pyramidalis) still going strong and now joined by the frog orchids (Coeloglossum viride).

[Matt T]

Here's something pretty special discovered on the machair today - a very pale specimen of the pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) (compare with those shown below).