Intro: Erect perennial found in savannas in the Coastal Plain and bogs in the Mountains and Piedmont.

Stems: Stems unbranched, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves (1-3) alternate, sessile with sheathing base, ascending-spreading, lance-oblong to lance-linear, to 12 in. long (reduced to bracts upward), smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a dense, cylindric-conical terminal raceme; yellow-orange to pale orange; bilaterally symmetric; consisting of 2 petals and a sepal forming a curved hood, 2 wing-like lateral sepals, a long lip-petal that is either entire or wavy-margined and a slender, tapering spur.

Fruits: Fruit an ellipsoid capsule.

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Height: 8-25 in.

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description: Erect perennial found in savannas in the Coastal Plain and bogs in the Mountains and Piedmont.

stems: Stems unbranched, smooth.

leaves: Leaves (1-3) alternate, sessile with sheathing base, ascending-spreading, lance-oblong to lance-linear, to 12 in. long (reduced to bracts upward), smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a dense, cylindric-conical terminal raceme; yellow-orange to pale orange; bilaterally symmetric; consisting of 2 petals and a sepal forming a curved hood, 2 wing-like lateral sepals, a long lip-petal that is either entire or wavy-margined and a slender, tapering spur.

fruits: Fruit an ellipsoid capsule.

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