Orchid and 2 others for ID please

[Pete Collins]

I don't have my flower books with me here in Huntingdon, so I'm even more clueless than usual! These three flowers were in Monks Wood, a few miles north of Huntingdon, and I found them this evening.

This first one is obviously an orchid of some type - there were several of them, amongst the bluebells near the edge of the wood (mainly youngish oak). They had spotted leaves, one was over 18in tall, were mainly purple but a few were slightly more pink.



Is this next one False Oxlip?



The third is a type of Violet.



Thanks!

[leifus]

1) Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula)
2) False-oxlip
3) hard to tell but I'd hazard a guess at common dog-violet (Viola riviniana)

[aeshna5]

1 Early Purple Orchid, Orchis mascula
2 False Oxlip, Primula x polyantha

[Pete Collins]

Thanks leifus and aeshna5.

The early purple orchid is a new one for me.