lesser butterfly orchid


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Related to lesser butterfly orchid: greater butterfly orchid, Platanthera chlorantha
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Noun1.lesser butterfly orchid - south European orchid having fragrant greenish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria
Habenaria bifolia, Platanthera bifolia
orchid, orchidaceous plant - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
genus Platanthera, Platanthera - herbaceous terrestrial orchids of temperate northern and southern hemispheres
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Ffridd is an important home to wildlife like the Welsh clearwing moth, birds such as yellowhammer and chough, rare plants such as the lesser butterfly orchid, and important groups of grassland fungi and lichens.
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DELICATE BEAUTIES From left, the lesser butterfly orchid at East Chevington, the bee orchid and dark red helleborine at Bishop Middleham.
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Plants include bog asphodel, lesser butterfly orchid, petty whin, seawort, bog pimpernel and many sedges and rushes, including two types of cotton grass.
Let the ancient meadows flourish again with flowers threatened by modern times; Native plants are a living link between the earliest farmers and the present, according to Carmarthenshire farmer Ruth Watkins

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