Wooohoooo! Went looking for this and very excited to have found it. Though it's an arbitrary boundary, I suppose this is the first iNat observation of the species in what might be considered "northern Virginia"!
Uncompressed image (focus stack) can be found at my Flickr with link in my bio :)
• Perennial saprophyte from branched coral-like rhizomes • Purple flowers in loose, terminal cluster • Found in fen