Corallorhiza wisteriana Conrad. Common name: Spring Coralroot. Phenology: (Late Jan-) Feb-May; Mar-Jun. Habitat: Moist to dry forests, usually in base-rich soils. Distribution: NJ, PA, OH, IN, IL, MO, and OK south to c. peninsular FL, and TX, and also in the Rockies from MT and w. SD south to s. Mexico.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, ETx1, F, FNA26, G, Il, K4, Mo1, NcTx, NS, Pa, POWO, RAB, S13, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3, WV, Correll (1950), Freudenstein (1997), Luer (1975); = Corallorrhiza wisteriana Conrad — S, orthographic variant. Basionym: Corallorhiza wisteriana Conrad 1829
Links to other floras: = Corallorhiza wisteriana - FNA26
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: UPL
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC
- Great Plains: FACU
- Midwest: FACU
- Northcentral & Northeast: FACU
Heliophily ⓘ: 2
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect perennial of moist to dry forests, usually in base-rich soils.
Stems: Stem leafless, the base strongly thickened and bulbous, yellowish-brown to reddish-purple and smooth.
Leaves: There are no real leaves; a few sheathing bracts may be present.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers 10-15 in a narrow terminal raceme and horizontally spreading, ascending, or drooping. Each flower about â…“ in. long, bilaterally symmetric, consisting of a prominent reddish-green ovary with reddish-green, narrow sepals and petals attached to its top and forming a hood over an additional sharply drooping, white lip petal, which is larger and purple-spotted.
Fruits:
Comments: Lacks chlorophyll and utilizes fungi to obtain carbon from the roots of other plants.
Height: 4-17 in.
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description: Erect perennial of moist to dry forests, usually in base-rich soils.
stems: Stem leafless, the base strongly thickened and bulbous, yellowish-brown to reddish-purple and smooth.
leaves: There are no real leaves; a few sheathing bracts may be present.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers 10-15 in a narrow terminal raceme and horizontally spreading, ascending, or drooping. Each flower about â…“ in. long, bilaterally symmetric, consisting of a prominent reddish-green ovary with reddish-green, narrow sepals and petals attached to its top and forming a hood over an additional sharply drooping, white lip petal, which is larger and purple-spotted.
fruits:
comments: Lacks chlorophyll and utilizes fungi to obtain carbon from the roots of other plants.
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