This species is only known from a fen in McHenry County. Usual habitats are calcium rich marshes, meadows, and shores. It ranges from Ontario to Quebec south to North Dakota, Illinois, Ohio, and New Jersey. This plant is known from Bottineau and McHenry counties. It grows along Lake Metigoshe and in peatlands near Towner.
Usual habitats are marshes, wet meadows, and shorelines.
The distribution is from Quebec and Nova Scotia to western Ontario and North Dakota, south to Massachusetts, New York, and West Virginia. This species is known to occur in Cass, Ransom, and Richland counties, where it is found in low prairie meadows. It has been considered for national endangered species status. Populations in North Dakota are probably the largest of any known. It is distributed from North Dakota, Minnesota, southern Ontario and Quebec south to Kansas, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, central New York, and Maine.