Flower/fruit:
1
inch pale purple to rose flowers borne in a showy terminal spike;
the corolla is swollen at the throat; upper lip is domed; lower
lip is spreading and has three lobes
Flowering
Season: Late summer, fall
Foliage:
Smooth, erect, often-branching
stem; 1.5 to 5 inch sharply toothed lance-shaped leaves
Site:
Moist soil; sun to partial shade;
wet meadows, bogs, banks of streams
Comments:
Flowers tend to stay put
when bent from their normal position
