Saturday, 20 August 2011

Broad-Leaved Helleborine

Broad-Leaved Helleborine, Epipactis helleborine, on Keston Common. 14 July 2011.
Broad-Leaved Helleborine, Epipactis helleborine, on Keston Common.  14 July 2011.
These flowers are individually quite small and grow in long spikes. Broad-Leaved Helleborines seem suicidal; they grow preferentially by the edge of footpaths. This specimen and several others are on a pathway right by the road.

Taken with an EOS 60D and 100mm macro lens.
Posted by Bill Welch at 05:00
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