Reigate, Surrey. UK. Tuesday 10th June 2014. Flora and fauna on the North Downs. A Common Spotted orchid 'Dactylorhiza fuchsii' in the sun in a meadow on the North Downs at Reigate Hill, Surrey. Credit: Photo by Lindsay Constable / Alamy Live News.

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Reigate, Surrey. UK. Tuesday 10th June 2014. Flora and fauna on the North Downs. A Common Spotted orchid 'Dactylorhiza fuchsii' in the sun in a meadow on the North Downs at Reigate Hill, Surrey. © Photo by Lindsay Constable / Alamy Live News. The Common Spotted orchid is the most common of all UK orchids and the one you are most likely to see. It grows in many different habitats including woodland, roadside verges, hedgerows, old quarries, sand dunes and marshes; sometimes so many flowers appear together that they carpet an area with their delicate, pale pink spikes. It is in bloom between June and August. Source:

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Location: North Downs, Reigate Hill, Reigate, Surrey. UK
Photo credit: © Lindsay Constable / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: common, dactylorhiza, downs, flower, fuchsii, north, orchid, reigate, spotted, wild