- Genus
- Orchis
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Common Names
- Aaron's beard, Adam-and-Eve, adder's grass, ballock grass, bloody man's finger, blue butcher, bullock grass, crake feet, cuckooflower, cuckooflower orchid, dead man's finger, dead man's fingers, dead man's thumb, Gethsemane, hand orchid, keat legs, keat's legs, kite pan, kite's legs, long purples, May orchid, purple orchid, purple wreathwort, ram's horns, satyricon, spotted orchid
About this plant
O. mascula is a terrestrial orchid with leaves usually spotted with deep purple, and dense, upright spikes of small, intricate, light to dark purple flowers from spring to early summer