Scientific Name
Arethusa bulbosa

Common Name
Grass pink; Calopogon

Life Cycle: Perennial

Height: 4 to 20 inches
Flower/fruit: 2 to 10 magenta-pink flowers open upward in a loose raceme on a slender stem; erect lip at top of flower has a squarish tip with a tufted yellow crest; petals and sepals flare out
Flowering Season: Early summer
Foliage: Single slender leaf sheath; single 8 to 12 inch grasslike leaf sheaths at base of the stem
Site: Bogs, wet meadows
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