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Corallorhiza wisteriana Conrad. Spring Coralroot. Phen: (Late Jan-) Feb-May; Mar-Jun. Hab: Moist to dry forests, usually in base-rich soils. Dist: 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, K1, K3, K4, Mo1, NcTx, Pa, RAB, S13, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3, WV, Correll (1950), Freudenstein (1997), Luer (1975); = Corallorrhiza wisteriana – S, orthographic variant

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

NCBG trait

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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