This orchid can be quite small as in these examples in the grassland at Spurn Point or have huge flowerheads three times the size of ones in the photograph here. It is usually this deep pink colour and you can see the pyramidal shape of the flower head from a distance.
Yorkshire, Spurn Point, 5th July 2004
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Amended on 31st October 2004