Gymnadenia borealis

Heath fragrant orchid

Photographed Hampshire, 20 June 2004

Image number gbor15

This fragrant orchid lives in wet, acidic grassland and heaths, rather than the dry alkaline grassland favoured by G. conopsea, or the wet alkaline habitat of G. densiflora. The colour is usually stronger and the labellum a different shape, with virtually no sign of tri-lobing.