Wet peaty or turfy bogs or fens, either in the open or partially shaded by alders and conifers (Black Spruce-Balsam Fir-Eastern White Cedar). Identified growing in the northern Ontario clay belt and Sudbury District. Normally a sun lover, but sometimes grows down in dark mossy wells in deep shade as well.

4 - 20 cm (usually not over 10 cm).
Leaves several, 2 -5, only two large and well-developed; some rising from below the corm, some from above; producing tiny, bulbil-like appendages at apex which are said to reproduce the plant vegetatively (Case, 1987).
Raceme long, floral bracts tiny.
Flowers 15-30, yellowish-green to white, lip uppermost.

Frequent in northern Europe but extremely rare in North America.. Minuscule in size: a clump of 14 blooming plants occupies an area smaller than a 25-cent piece.

Orchids of Ontario
Orchids of the Western Great Lakes