Found in wet coniferous woods and sphagnum bogs, usually in areas of calcareous bedrock. Responds well to "cold bottom" conditions.

Height 4.5 - 14 cm.
Leaves 2, opposite, ovate-cordate, attached a little below midway on the stem.
Raceme slender, 2 - 8 cm. Long, 6 - 20 flowers.
Flowers 3 - 5 mm. long, green to reddish purple. Lip cleft one-half its length into 2 diverging , long, narrow, pointed lobes.
A tiny, inconspicuous, shiny little plant.

Look for plant in sun dappled openings in coniferous and mixed forests.
Northern California populations are known to be pollinated by tiny fungus gnats (Ackerman and Mesler, 1979).
Seed capsules behind the lip ripen and expand before the flower withers, often giving the appearance of a flower hanging from a tiny baloon

Orchids of Ontario
The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol III Ð 1
The Orchids of Bruce & Grey