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Wild orchids in Bohemia

Autumn Ladies Tresses

Autumn Ladies Tresses

Wild ordhids are growing in Bohemia! Tower Road West resident Sheila Shepheard has been enjoying the sight of ‘Autumn Ladies Tresses’, growing on her lawn: ‘For the last four years they have appeared in August and died down in September. I normally get just two or three plants, but this year there were about twenty. I contacted Ellen Campbell of the local Botany Society and she came and logged them’.
o The Autumn Ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) is the latest-blooming native species of orchid, flowering in August and September. It is characterised by a spiral inflorescence produced after the leaves have died down. The flowers can be very small especially in short grazed grassland. It occurs most frequently in close cropped grassland overlying chalk or limestone. It is found from the Mediterranean zone of Northern Europe northwards and westwards to the Western Himalayas.

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