[walltoall]

'Smorning out early with my noo camara, I came across this. looks like it might be an orchid. Picture shows only a small section of the complete specimen which had about a dozen blooming branches (bet there's a pun in there somewhere) but I can't show you the whole plant until I read Verge's article on shrinking pictures. The plant was growing on dry 'heathland' (formerly a landfill site) in the company of irises, brooms, vetches, comfreys, horse radishes.

Identity?

[Belfast]

Looks like wild peas to me.

[Sean Ph'lib]

What a great flower! It might be a wild pea, but considering where you saw it, there's a strong possibility that it could be a tuberous vetchling (Lathyrus tuberosus).

[walltoall]

Thank you friends; two interesting options for me to follow up. I'm fascinated by the tuberous possibility. Here's another from the same area which by coincidence was pictured in last Saturday's Times but not attributed. The quality has had to to be reduced from 4M to get it to load.

[Her Outdoors]

It looks like Lysimachia, lovely at this time of year.

[walltoall]

Direct hit "Her Outdoors"
Lysimachia punctata-Yellow Loosestrife .
Gimme a name and I can find anything.
Fascinating and brief article on the exact plant at
paulparent.com under perennials. Thanks many.
It's a truly spectacular show in a wild meadow.

[verge]