Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. ochroleuca Cream-flowered Marsh Orchid

This rare subspecies is restricted to moist, periodically inundated fens with calcareous groundwater. It is often confused with albino variants of other D. incarnata subspecies. It has declined over the last fifty years and is now reduced to just two populations, one at Chippenham Fen in Cambridgeshire and one in the Suffolk Wildlife Trust Reserve at Market Weston Fen. Flowering numbers vary with up to ten spikes in good years.