Local Wild Orchids in Leaf Only

Common Name: Early Purple Orchid

Latin Name: Orchis mascula

Photographer: Nick Fry

Site Name: Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve, DT2 0EQ

Date of Photograph: 08/04/2022

Photographer’s Comments:

“This small colony of Early Purple orchids is growing beside a river under tree cover. The plants will flower before the leaf canopy places the plants in deep shade.”