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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.

 

Pink Wildflowers in the Western Isles

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	Cuckooflower Lady's smock	8-18", grassy areas,
	Heath Milkwort Blue, pink, or rarely white	3-5", moorland, wet pasture land, flowers like tiny udders
	Common Milkwort (also on blue or white)	3-5", machair, dry pastures, banks, flowers like tiny udders
	Heath Spotted-orchid	Often pink, lightly SCENTED, usually moorland, lightly spotted leaves, lower part of floret often wavy-edged, with small tooth in middle of a wide skirt
	Hebridean Spotted-orchid	Often deep pinkish-lilac, machair orchid, leaves lots spotted, LONG tooth in centre of lower petal of floret, often forms colonies
	Heath-spotted orchid x Hebridean Spotted-orchid	Often pink - variable (example: long centre tooth in the bottom petal of floret of a pale orchid found on moorland)
	Northern Marsh-orchid	Usually VERY deep-coloured purple -sometimes very deep pink, lowerpetal of a floret looks diamond-shaped, no spots on leaves.
	Northern Marsh-orchid x Heath Spotted-ochid	Variable (Example: Deep colour, diamond shape to lower part of floret, slightly spotted leaves
	Early Marsh-orchid subsp coccinea	Deep crimson, no spots on leaves, machair, bottom part of florets narrow-looking sides pulled back

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