WILDFLOWERS YOU HAVE SEEN WHILE OUT WALKING

Greater Butterfly, Chalk Fragrant, Common Twayblade and Bee orchids, all seen today.

 

What lovely orchids! @strongylodon

 

Some more orchids from today.
A rare cousin of the Greater Butterfly, the Lesser Butterfly orchid, only 12 plants at this only site in Dorset.


Pyramidal, a fairly common orchid nationwide.


A white form of Heath Spotted orchid.


Wasp, a variation of the Bee orchid.

 

I would like to see some wild orchids as well but have only ever seen one when we lived in Spain, many years ago now.

 

Had a wander round a local loch, the Yellow Flag Iris look lovely and I see our young plant next to our wild life pond has a bud too.

 

Iris foetidissima, Stinking Iris.


Bog Asphodel just coming up.


Scabious.

 

Heath Fragrant and Heath Spotted orchids.

 

Here are a couple of wild flowers I saw at the end of May this year. The first I think is a wild Malva but the other I don't know what it might be.

I'm pretty good at identifying cultivated plants but a "dunce" when it comes to many wild flowers!
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A very hard to find Frog Orchid, only about 8" high, just four plants, one still in bud.