Several nodding, yellowish- green flowers emerge from the center of a whorl of 3 leaves at the top of a slender, woolly, unbranched stem, on stalks that sometimes bend down below the leaves. Grows to be 1 to 1 1/2 feet. Berries are dark bluish purple and attracts birds.

Flower bloom from May-June in moist wetlands, in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, south to Florida, west to Alabama and Louisiana and north to Minnesota.

The root which is edible, used to be used for food by the Indians but the plant is apparently too rare today to be used as such.