This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Pogonia ophioglossoides.
Orchis Family. June - July.
Found in wet meadows, swamps. Newfoundland to Florida, west to Indiana and Minnesota.
Crimson-pink, crest of lower lip yellow to white, solitary, terminating stem 8 -15 inches high.
A small leaflet borne just below the flower, and a larger leaf midway of the stem.

Rose Pogonia.
 
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