Flowers: The flowers are irregular in shape . They are mauve, green and purple. Blooms first appear in mid spring and continue into early summer. The flowers are in a loose raceme. The mauve lip is nearly as wide as long, tapers toward the base, has a small point and is translucent. There are two narrow green sepals under the lip that extend to just beyond the lip and can usually be seen through the lip. Two purple lateral petals are thread like and tend to droop. The peduncle is deep purple.
Habitat: Open woods and borders.
I found these ones at Yellow Creek State Park in PA. There was a pretty large station of them of roughly 50 plants. Under a patch of spruce trees.
