Scientific Name
Calopogon pulchellus

Common Name
Grass pink

Life Cycle: Perennial

Height: 6 to 20 inches
Flower/fruit: 1 to 1.7 inch, fragrant, lavender-pink flowers in a spike-like cluster of 2 to 10 flowers on leafless stalk; yellow bearded-lip petals stand erect over five similar floral parts
Flowering Season: Spring into summer
Foliage: Up to 12 inch, basal, grasslike leaves
Site: Bogs, moist savannahs, meadows, low roadside ditches
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