Goodyera pubescens R.Br.

Stout, 2–4 dm; scape with 4–14 (avg 7) bracts; lf-blades ovate or lance-ovate, 3–6 cm, the dark green midrib flanked by a pair of broad white stripes, and the primary and secondary lateral veins forming a white reticulum; infl dense, cylindric, 4–10 cm; galea broadly elliptic, very convex, 4–5.5 mm, upturned at the tip; lateral sep broadly ovate to obovate, 3.5–5 mm, abruptly short-acuminate; lip subglobose, 3.5–5 mm, its straight beak less than 1 mm, scarcely projecting beyond the ventricose body; rostellar beak obsolete; 2n=26. Dry woods; s. Me. and s. Que. to Minn., s. to S.C., Ga., Ala., and Ark. July, Aug. (Epipactis p.; Peramium p.)

Almost any wooded habitat with acid soils, mainly on moist humus soils in shady, upland woods of hemlock, pine, oak, or maple, less frequent in lowland woods, bogs, swamps; 0-1600 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.