Species: Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii)
Family: Orchids (ORCHIDACEAE)
Category: Flowering Plants
Location: NW
A. Flowering Plants
More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Orchids (ORCHIDACEAE)
This huge family of perennials features unusually bilaterally symmetric flowers, producing copious amounts of pollen, and minute dust-like seeds. The word 'orchid' means 'testicle', and this family is so-called because orchid roots resemble testicles.
C. Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii)
One of our most common native wild orchids, its scented flowers (from June) attract day-flying moths. This is the plant referred to in Hamlet as Dead Men's Fingers, because the tubers are divided into two or three finger-like lobes. Orchis in Greek mythology was turned into a flower by the Bacchanalians because he insulted a priestess of Bacchus. Orchis was the son of a Satyr, and the flower became food for the Satyrs, exciting them to excesses.
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Common Spotted Orchid
The Common Spotted Orchid is one of our most common native wild orchids, its scented flowers (from June) attract day-flying moths.
Common Spotted Orchid
The Common Spotted Orchid is the plant referred to in Shakespeare's Hamlet as Dead Men's Fingers, because the tubers are divided into two or three finger-like lobes.
Common Spotted Orchid
Orchis in Greek mythology was turned into a flower by the Bacchanalians because he insulted a priestess of Bacchus.
Common Spotted Orchid
Orchis was the son of a Satyr, and the flower became food for the Satyrs, exciting them to excesses.
Common Spotted Orchid
Orchids consist of a huge family of perennials which features unusually bilaterally symmetric flowers, producing copious amounts of pollen, and minute dust-like seeds.
