Flower pedicellate; pedicel usually 0.5-2 cm.

Flowering spring (Mar--early May). Low, swampy woodlands, sometimes sphagnous, mixed deciduous forests, often associated with cherty rock or decomposing shale in beech and oak forests; 0--600 m; Ala., Ark., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., N.C., Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex.