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22nd May 2015, Alt Rifle Range, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
There are a couple of pairs of broad leaves near the base of Twayblade here, which means there are two actual plants here since they have only two broad and opposite leaves each. |
22nd May 2015, Alt Rifle Range, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
Two plants. Flowers at tip not yet opened. |
12th June 2008, Monks Dale, Derbyshire | Photo: © RWD |
An easily over-looked plant in light-green camouflage, up to 60cm high. Leafless upper stem, flower in a well-separated spike at the top. |
12th June 2008, Monks Dale, Derbyshire | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers yellowish-green with a similarly-coloured long drooping apron-like lip. |
3rd June 2012, near Gourdon, Lot region of France | Photo: © Kelly Finney |
12th June 2008, Monks Dale, Derbyshire | Photo: © RWD |
The drooping lip is forked in the lowest third of its 7-15mm length. |
12th June 2008, Monks Dale, Derbyshire | Photo: © RWD |
From a full-frontal perspective, the flower looks like an alien wearing a short cowled head-piece, with four short curved arms, one pair raised above its head. Its small head is yellow. The aliens can be any-which-way up, few even upside down. |
12th June 2008, Monks Dale, Derbyshire | Photo: © RWD |
The four 'arms' may redden. |
16th July 2011, Dugort, Achill Island, Eire. | Photo: © Paula O'Meara |
Stems tend to redden in high summer. From the side, the flower has a slightly inflated sepal-tube, a little like those of White Campion. |
9th June 2018, Ext Rly, Waitby Greenriggs, Yorks. | Photo: © RWD |
This specimen is half and half: bottom are fully opened flowers whilst the top flowers are still within their sepals. |
22nd May 2015, Alt Rifle Range, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
As-yet un-opened flower buds at tip showing the four sepals. |
22nd May 2015, Alt Rifle Range, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
A bract just below the flower stalk (petiole). |
11th May 2012, near Gourdon, Lot region of France | Photo: © Kelly Finney |
A young specimen, flowers not yet open. |
12th June 2008, Monks Dale, Derbyshire | Photo: © RWD |
There are just a single opposite pair of very broad stubby stem leaves close to the ground, although they are not basal leaves. Stems have very short fine whitish hairs. |
A member of the Orchid Family of plants, although not rare.
Can be mistaken for: Frog Orchid (Dactylorhiza viridis) can also be confused with Common Twayblade, but the latter has longer legs and the former sometimes has reddish-brown parts on the skyward side of the flowers when in drier places. Distinguishing Feature : A single pair of broad but stubby leaves on the stem suspended above ground level and with no other leaves anywhere else. The flower looks like an alien with a long, split at the bottom, yellowish-green apron. Likes to grown in grassy places and in woods. Seems to prefer lime.
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