This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Family, Orchis. Flowers, small, with narrow petals. Lip, eared (not fringed), slender, terminating in a long point, roundish near the flower. Flowers, in a raceme, each with a short pedicel. June and July.
A single, rather broad leaf inwraps the base of the stem, which arises from a solid bulb. 5 to 6 inches high. Swamps or wet woods.
 
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