Not to be sematically confused with : Lady's Slipper Orchid, Autumn Lady's Tresses, Irish Lady's Tresses or Creeping Lady's Tresses [other Orchids with similar names] nor with Lady's Mantle, Lady's Bedstraw, Lady's Smock or Lady's Teardrops fuchsia magellanica [plants with similar names belonging to differing families]

Can be mistaken for : Burnt-tip Orchid, but that is much shorter at only one-third the height, with flowers half the size and generally has most of the dark-purple hoods at the huddled together at the top of the flowering spike, rather than having all the hoods the same shade of dark purple. Also, the 'womans dress' has far fewer purple spots, no pink edging, and therefore looks more white than does Lady Orchid.

The flowers have a pleasant fragrance.

A fairly rare plant, occupying less than a dozen hectads, all South and East of Bristol (especially in Kent) and without any presence in Eire.

It grows in woods and scrub on chalk soils and has a pleasant fragrance (those of Burnt-tip Orchid smell like Heliotrope.

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