Japan Flora: Roots somewhat thickened, digitately 2- to 3-lobed; stems 10- 40 cm. long, erect; leaves 3-6, oblanceolate to lanceolate, blades of the lower leaves broadly linear, 7-15 cm. long, 7-30 mm. wide, obtuse, the upper blades acute, often with dark-purple spots; spike or raceme few-flowered, 4-10 cm. long, the bracts linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, as long as the flower; flowers rather densely arranged, rose-purple; sepals lanceolate, long- acuminate, 8-13 mm. long, 3-nerved, the dorsal sepal erect, the lateral sepals spreading upward; petals narrowly ovate, obtuse, 2- to 3-nerved, slighdy shorter than the sepals; lip obovate- triangular, spreading, slightly longer than the sepals, papillose inside, 3-lobed at tip, the lateral lobes depressed-deltoid, rounded at apex, shorter than the median; spur linear-cyl- indric, 1-1.5 cm. long, straight. June-Aug. Grassy alpine slopes;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr. and northw.). Kuriles, Sakhalin, Korea, Aleutians, and Alaska.

f. albiflora (Koidz.) Tatew. Flowers white.