This species of boggy sites ranges widely over eastern North America, but most records are from the Coastal Plains and in the Great Lakes area. Inland, it occurs only locally in Appalachian and Ozarkian regions. Currently in Ky., the only known plants are along a dirt road on Pine Mt. in LETC (MM for WKY). The coll. attributed to ROWA (PH) was made in 1834 by Clarendon Peck from "Licking River marshes." That historic record is supported by the extraordinary colored map of Oct 1834: "A Picter of Peck's Travels on Licking." The map was discovered by A. Risk among the materials of C.W. Short in the Southern Historical coll. at Duke University. It shows "Pogonia & Drosera" in "marshes" on "High Flat Land" near the current Rowan County airport (Campbell et al. 1992).