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Western Isles Wildflowers

Western Isles wildflowers is a collection of information about our Hebridean wildflowers including identification hints, traditional herbal uses and general plant lore.

 

Frog Orchid

Coeloglossum viride

Gaelic name: Mogairlean Losgainn

Frog orchid is found alongside the more colourful orchids on the machair. It is very green at first and easily missed.

Frog orchid is 3 - 8" tall, and goes greenish-brown or pinkish-brown as the season progresses. Early in the season it looks a bit like a slim version one of the coloured orchids that has either not properly come into flower yet, or has perhaps finished flowering and is dying back.

Frog orchid is a common find.

Frog orchid is a native plant of the Western Isles.

All orchids are protected by law.

Suzanne Harris
Reef Machair - Uig - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
June 2007