DAY OF THE ORCHIDS - COMMON SPOTTED ORCHIDS - DACTYLORHIZA FUCHSII (Part 2)

Now here are a series of shots of the Common Spotted Orchid whereby all the flowers of each are white or pretty darn close to white! Well I guess I should call them alba, meaning white.

Oddly it is these I prefer the most of the Dactylorhiza group but I do like the reddish Early Marsh Orchids too.

DAY OF THE ORCHIDS - COMMON SPOTTED ORCHIDS - DACTYLORHIZA FUCHSII (Part 1)

Now here is a full array of Common Spotted Orchids from the same patch in a location I visit.

Now I was hoping for a day like this but I expected them to have stopped flowering but was pleasantly surprised!

Now in this series there are many different plants and you can see a difference in the colours and all of these are only a few feet apart. In all honesty I was under the impression that variation like this would be separated by a few hundred miles at least?!

This is part one and more from the same site in the following post.

DAY OF THE ORCHIDS - FEW MORE COMMON SPOTTED ORCHIDS

A managed to find some Common Spotted Orchids which were still in full flower unlike the previous ones I had found at a site I have not seen them at in 5 years or more?!