WILDFLOWERS YOU HAVE SEEN WHILE OUT WALKING

I spent a while looking at the Native Wild Flowers of the UK page & found it very straight forward & interesting as well as instructive, @burnie

 

When I was walking back home with our granddaughter after picking her up from school we found a lovely patch of brilliant Buttercups!
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I took our U3a Nature group out for orchids as some had never seen any.
All three were in profusion along the cliffs including a white Early Purple .


Early Spiders were still hanging on.


A pink shade of Green Winged orchid.

 

That's nice, I've never seen a white one around here.

 

I'm not terribly sure but I think these are Speedwell flowers. Correct me if I'm wrong!
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Southern Marsh Orchids in a Southern marsh.

 

Yes @Balc it's Creeping Speedwell, Veronica repens. It was a dreadful weed in a previous garden for me, but quite pretty as well.

 

A trip to Martin Down on the Wiltshire/Dorset border to see these Burnt Tip orchids, only 7 plants but better looking than last year.




Common Spotted have just come up with varying colours.




On the way back home I stopped to see these as well.
White Helleborine.




Much rarer, Bird's Nest Orchid, a parasitic one and not at all colourful, just brown!

 

@shiney - it has been a late spring. The bee orchids at the Botanic Garden seem to have disappeared. My Dactylorrhiza are flowering but they are in a shady damp spot.
I love those burnt tip @strongylodon - were you on one of the Hardy Orchid Society field trips?

 

@CarolineL, no I visited on my own, I was told where to find them, just four flowers, in strict confidence.
The orchids at Badbury Rings, near Wimborne are slow this year. Only a few Greater Butterfly showing, some Common Spotted and plenty of Common Twayblade in various sizes but they are harder to see as the grasses are more lush compared to last year (drought).
Greater Butterfly.


Common Twayblade.




Common Spotted.

 

Well you did well to find the birds nest orchid @strongylodon - it's not exactly vivid

 

I have never seen an Orchid growing in the wild here in the UK but I did see one once when we lived in Spain.

These are amazing pictures!

 

Thanks to those who confirmed my post about the Speedwell! I thought it was but wasn't 100% sure.