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Perennial

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Uncommon (rare in GA)

Look for it in moist forests, northern hardwood forests, per Weakley's Flora

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shade ...Moist

LEAVES:
None

FLOWER:
Summer
Tan and white with magenta-crimson
Bisexual
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

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Corallorhiza maculata   FAMILY Orchidaceae

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)
 Corallorrhiza maculata

 

COMMON NAME:
 Eastern Spotted Coralroot

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image of Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata, Eastern Spotted Coralroot

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

        

image of Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata, Eastern Spotted Coralroot

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.

image of Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata, Eastern Spotted Coralroot

Jim Fowler    jafcoralmaculata_2030731

July        WV