Low to short plant, sometimes only 5 cm tall; stem with several brownish basal sheaths. Leaves 2 to 5 oval to lanceolate. Flowers small and inconspicuous yellowish green and often tinged with reddish or purplish brown. Faintly honey scented and borne in a rather lax spike.

It is on the VC55 Rare Plant Register, and very rare; a specimen should not be taken.  Take detailed field photos and submit to NatureSpot as soon as possible; and if you think you have found it in a new location, inform the County Recorder as soon you can. (RPR)

Grassland and woodland margin.

June.

Tuberous rooted perennial.

England Red List: Vulnerable. GB Red List: Vulnerable.

Very rare in Leicestershire & Rutland. Known from a single site, where there is a small and vulnerable population. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire, but was present in the Flora of Rutland (Messenger 1971) in 1 tetrad.

It is listed on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall and Woodward 2022) as Locally Rare (i.e. present in less than 3 sites)