Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: Co.Cork 
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Green-winged Orchid Flowers in a loose spike, usually purple but can be pink or occasionally white. Sepals form hood, parallel green-purplish veins. Lip broad, bluntly 3-lobed, crimson spots. Glossy green leaves, unspotted. Lower leaves in rosette, upper sheathing. Grows on base-rich to slightly acidic soils. Grassland, dunes, heaths, roadsides. Locally frequent, but decreasing. Endangered species. Similar: Early Purple Orchid, O. mascula 
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Photographs above: Co.Cork. April 2007
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