NameThatPlant.net: Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata FAMILY Orchidaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Corallorhiza from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Corallorhiza maculata FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-20-001:

Corallorhiza maculata FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Corallorrhiza maculata

COMMON NAME:
Eastern Spotted Coralroot, Summer Coralroot

To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.

image of Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata, Eastern Spotted Coralroot, Summer Coralroot

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_coma4_001_lvd

Jim Fowler jafcoralmaculata_1030731

July WV

Stem and petals tan, sepal edges a darker purplish-pink, lip white w spots, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

Jim Fowler jafcoralmaculata_2030731

July WV

A saprophytic species, this species does not produce leaves, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History (Fowler, 2005).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Corallorhiza maculata FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-20-001:
Corallorhiza maculata FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Corallorrhiza maculata

2134

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist forests, northern hardwood forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
None

FLOWER:
Summer
Tan and white with magenta-crimson
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
3 petals, the two lateral similar and a third (the lip) enlarged
stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

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“To learn how to observe and how to distinguish things correctly, is the greater part of education, and is that in which people otherwise well educated are apt to be surprisingly deficient. Natural objects, everywhere present and endless in variety, afford the best field for practice; and the study when young, first of Botany, and afterwards of other Natural Sciences, as they are called, is the best training that can be in these respects. This study ought to begin even before the study of language. For to distinguish things scientifically (that is, carefully and accurately) is simpler than to distinguish ideas. And in Natural History the learner is gradually led from the observation of things, up to the study of ideas or the relations of things.” — Asa Gray, in How Plants Grow: A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany

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