E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial herb from slender rhizomes; stems 10-25 cm tall, with bracts, lacking leaves, glandular-hairy.

Leaves:
In a basal cluster, the stalks 5-15 mm long, the blades egg-shaped to oblong-elliptic, 1-3 cm long, dark green, sometimes whitish net-veined.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a terminal, somewhat twisted, 1-sided, bracted, spikelike raceme, the flowers greenish-white, small; sepals 3-3.5 mm long, 1-veined, the upper sepal joined with lateral petals to form a hood over the lip; lip 3-3.5 mm long, pouchlike, beaked.

Fruits:
Capsules, ascending or divergent, egg-shaped, 5-9 mm long, tipped by dried flowers.