Orchid found in moist, shady woods, flowers in mid July. Infloresence is a long spike, spikes measured to 14 cm long. Flowers are greenish white, with a long spur. Flowers measured at 19 mm diameter and spurs to 18 mm long. Plants have two basal leaves, round to broadly elliptical. Basal leaf measured at 9 cm long and 7.5 cm wide. 1 or 2 stem leaves, which are sessile, lancelolate, measured to 17 mm long and 5 mm wide. Plants glabrous.
Identified by its two, basal leaves, which lie flat on the ground, and its long flower spurs. Habitat is moist woods in the boreal forest. Listed as S2S3, rare to uncommon, by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.
Hieght listed in Budd's Flora to 60 cm in height. Tallest plant we measured was 33 cm tall.
The above photos were taken July 12th, mossy black spruce woods, boreal forest 450 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.