Small orchid growing in calcareous fens and seeps, in forest openings and grassland. Erect plant with a single flowering stem. Yellow flowers in a loose raceme, racemes to 7 cm long, flowers to 10 mm wide, lip 5 mm long. Two opposite, basal leaves. Leaves are elliptical to ovate, we measured them to 8 cm long. Plant is glabrous.

Flowers in early July. 

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 20 cm. We measured plants to 19 cm tall.

Rare, listed as an S1S2 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.

Above photos were taken July 1st through 4th in a wet prairie meadow about 65 km south east of our home in Regina, SK, and in a forest fen, Duck Mountain Provincial Park, 300 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.

I get preachy here: please don't dig up native orchids to try to grow them in your garden. They are becoming rare in the wild due to loss of habitat and wild harvesting. By all accounts they are also quite difficult to transplant successfully from the wild. If you want to grow them in your garden, there are nurseries who grow native orchids from seed who will sell plants to you.