15 cm ruler for scale

Leaves bent back to show flowers

Perennial notable for its elbowed stalks, giving the stalks a twisted appearance. Leaves are lanceolate to ovate, alternate, clasp the stem. Leaf highlighted in photo above was 10.5 cm long and 4 cm wide. Stems bristly with hairs at the bottom, glabrous at the top. Flowers are white, single, hang down from the stem. Fragrant. We measured a flower to 8 mm long.

Habitat is moist woods.

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 100 cm, we measured plants to 85 cm tall.

Rare to uncommon, listed as an S2S3 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.

Above photos taken July 2nd, in moist spruce woods in the Porcupine Hills, 400 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.

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