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Orchid id?

Capercaille · 2014-06-02 16:26:15

Is this early marsh orchid. Taken today.

02-06-2014 4:26pm

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Is this early marsh orchid. Taken today.

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#2 02-06-2014 5:51pm

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Looks like it to me. Northern Marsh Orchid Dactylorhiza purpurella.

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#3 04-06-2014 4:24pm

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Yes, Northern Marsh Orchid looks right in my book, too

taken where, approx? I know of another sighting of Northern Marsh Orchid looking just like this, last weekend...
PS it WAS Northern!!

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#4 04-06-2014 5:13pm

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Took photo in Pollardstown fen, Kildare. Just off the boardwalk there.

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#5 04-06-2014 5:26pm

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katemarch wrote: »

Yes, Northern Marsh Orchid looks right in my book, too

taken where, approx? I know of another sighting of Northern Marsh Orchid looking just like this, last weekend...
PS it WAS Northern!!

There are plenty of them about. They are catagorised as widespread and locally common.

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