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.
Habenaria ciliaris. Orchis Family. July - Aug.
Found in moist meadows, sandy bogs. Vermont and Massachusetts to Michigan, Missouri, and southward.
Golden or orange-yellow, lower lip fringed, borne in spike terminating a stem, 1 - 2 feet high.
Lance-shaped, clasping.

Yellow Fringed Orchis.
 
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