Japan Flora: Roots digitate, thickened; stems 30- 60 cm. long, rather stout; leaves 3-7, disposed mostly on lower half of stems, alternate, broadly linear, sometimes lanceolate or linear, 10-20 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, obtuse, becoming acute or acuminate toward the top and smaller, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate; spikes rather densely many-flowered, 7-15 cm. long; bracts broadly lanceolate, long-acuminate; flowers rose-purple; sepals ovate, obtuse, spreading, 4-5 mm. long, 2- or 3-nerved; petals oblique, broadly ovate, obtuse, shorter than the sepals; lip 6-8 mm. long, with 3 equally rounded lobes; spur linear, 15-20 mm. long. July-Aug. Grassy places in high mountains;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr. and northw.); rather common. Korea, Sakhalin, Kuriles, China, Siberia, and Europe.