Speyside: some June botanical treasures

Dell Woods 

Chickweed wintergreen (Trientalis europaea)

This delicate flower abounds in the pine woods.

Tr
 Mossy Cyphel (Minuartia  sedoides)

This low cushion forming plant grows on gravel in the old station sidings at Nethy Bridge.
Unexciting to look at but also very uncommon

Duack Bridge

White dog roses (Rosa canina) along the Speyside Way

Fragrant Orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea) growing beside the Puggy Line trail through Dell Woods, Nethy Bridge

One of the many roe deer

Properly Lochan Mor,according to no less an authority than Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus,The Highland Lady herself, but now known as the Lily Loch has several large patches of White Water-lily (Nymphaea alba) 

Alpine Bistort (Polygonum viviparum)
Patches of this short perennial grow by the woodland path leading from Inverdruie to Lochan Mor The bulbils on the lower part of the stem will eventually fall off to produce new plants.

Meadow land on the west side of the road from Nethy Bridge to Coylumbridge
This magnificent meadow, is studded with the spikes of butterfly orchids, there are also patches of thyme, tormentil and Common rockrose suggesting that the soil is slightly calcareous. A fence makes photography difficult.

 Butterfly orchid (Platanthera)