Greater Butterfly-orchid - Platanthera chlorantha

White flowers slightly tinged with green and faintly smelling of vanilla.

Photograph on the plant in its habitat (RPR)

Woods, scrub meadows and damp heaths.

June and July.

Tuberous rooted perennial.

Widespread but never common in Britain.

Scarce in Leicestershire & Rutland; most populations are small and potentially vulnerable.

In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi and Evans 1988) it was found in 9 of the 617 tetrads, and in the Flora of Rutland (Messenger 1971) in 4 tetrads.

It is listed on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall and Woodward 2022) as Locally Scarce (i.e. present in 4-10 sites)