Frog orchid
This unassuming orchid is easily overlooked. It is found patchily across the UK, but has been declining for decades.
This unassuming orchid is easily overlooked. It is found patchily across the UK, but has been declining for decades.
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The Early purple orchid is one of the first orchids to pop up in spring. Look for its pinkish-purple flowers from April, when bluebells still carpet our woodland floors. Its leaves are dark green…
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Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
The pyramidal orchid lives up to its name - look for a bright pinky-purple, densely packed pyramid of flowers atop a green stem. It likes chalk grassland, sand dunes, roadside verges and quarries…
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The petals of the rare Lizard orchid's flowers form the head, legs and long tail of a lizard. They are greenish, with light pink spots and stripes, and smell strongly of goats! Spot this tall…
This is probably the most widespread and commonest of the marsh orchids.
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A short, but pretty plant of unimproved grasslands, the Green-winged orchid gets its name from the green veins in the 'hood' of its flowers. Look for it in May and June.