Common Spotted Orchid

I've been neglecting the wildflowers recently. Mainly I think because I haven't seen anything new for a while. This morning the spaniel and I took a detour from our normal walk on the common and walked up the grassy firebreak instead of through the woods. We came across several hundred orchids. Mainly common spotted but with a few heath spotted around as well. They can be difficult to tell apart but I think this is the common spotted as the lip has three more or less equal lobes. It wasn't new to see these orchids on the common but I don't recall seeing so many together before.

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