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.
L. australis bears very small greenish-yellow flowers with purple stripes. The narrow lip is 1/2 inch long, slit nearly its entire length. Leaves, ovate, sessile, a pair attached just above the middle of the scape. Rarely a third leaf occurs near the raceme of flowers. Scape, 4 to 10 inches high.
In wet woods or bogs from New York to Florida.
 
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