Plants 15–50(–67) cm. Corms globose to elongate, rarely forked, 11–26 mm. Leaves not appressed to inflorescence at flowering; blade linear, 7–23 cm × 2–6 mm. Inflorescences green or slightly purple at base, becoming entirely green after flowering, 20–62 cm; floral bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–4.5 mm. Flowers 3–20, more than 1 cm apart, opening sequentially, magenta, pale pink, or white, faintly fragrant; dorsal sepal oblanceolate, 12–20 × 4.5–6 mm; lateral sepals widely spreading (reflexed), ovate to lanceolate, falcate, 10–15 × 5–9 mm, apex acuminate; petals lanceolate to weakly pandurate, falcate, 9–18 × 3–5.5 mm, apex acuminate; lip 9–13 mm, middle lobe with dilated apex triangular, 5–11 mm wide, apex truncate, retuse to apiculate; column 7–11 × 1–1.5 mm, distal end 6–9 mm wide; rostellum present. Capsules ellipsoid to obconic, 11–23 × 4–8 mm. 2n = 40, 42.
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Much like no. 1 [Calopogon tuberosus (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.]; fls white to pink, avg smaller, the tep 9–18 mm; lip 8–12 mm, with a dense tuft of hairs at the base of the terminal expanded part; winged terminal portion of the column (when flattened out) triangular-elliptic, with subtruncate base. Wet pinelands and savannas on the coastal plain; se. Va. to Fla. and La. June. (Limodorum p.)
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