Lesser Twayblade

Neottia cordata

Scarce & localized in Britain.

Usually each plant has just one flowering stem, but rarely there can be as many as three.

The stem is hairless, succulent, and green to purple–red; it is clasped by the leaves about a third to halfway up a flowering stem or at the top of a non-flowering stem.

The glossy green leaves are a shiny dark-green on the upper side and ovate to cordate, shaped like an egg or like a heart.

Flowers from mid May-early July.