Description
Height: 40 – 50 cm
Color: petals and sepals pink, rarely white; lip matching
Season: June to late July (Great Lakes region)
Habitat: sphagnum bogs, fens, wet sand flats, mesic and wet-mesic sand prairies
Exposure: open and sunny
Associates: In bogs with Drosera rotundifolia (round-leaved sundew), Pogonia ophioglossoides (rose pogonia), Potentilla palustris (marsh cinquefoil), Rhus vernix (poison sumac), Thelypteris palustris (marsh fern); In wet sand flats with Aletris farinosa (colic root), Drosera rotundifolia (round-leaved sundew), Euthamia graminifolia (grass-leaved goldenrod), Osmunda regalis (royal fern), Polygala cruciata (cross-leaved milkwort), Spiranthes cernua (nodding lady’s tresses), and Xyris torta (slender yelloweyed grass)