Japan Flora: Roots slightly thickened; stems 10-40 cm. long, erect, slender, few-leaved, densely white-pubescent in upper part; radical leaves linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 5-20 cm. long, 3-10 mm. wide, acute to acuminate, narrowed to the base, the stem-leaves few, smaller, appressed, lanceolate, acuminate, sheathed at base; spikes 5，15 cm. long, densely white-pubescent, densely manyflowered, the bracts narrowly ovate or oblong, 4-8 mm. long. long-acuminate, appressed to the ovary; flowers pale rose, rarely white, 4-5 mm. across, slightly open; sepals lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, gradually narrowed, obtuse; petals erect, slightly shorter than the sepals, linear-lanceolate; lip obovate, white, slightly longer than the sepals, minutely dentate on the margins, slightly recurved at tip, with a small callosity on each side; ovary sessile; capsules erect, ellipsoidal, 6-7 mm. long. Apr.-Aug. Grassy places in lowlands and hills;

Hokkaidoj Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; very common. Sakhalin, Kuriles, Siberia, China, Manchuria, Korea, Ryukyus, For-mosa, India, Malaysia, and Australia.