Corallorhiza maculata
Summer Coralroot

Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)

Photo taken at Blewett Pass, shaded, moist, decomposing forest litter

Flowers:

sepals and petals pink to wine red, sepals 6 to 13 mm; lip white and generally reddish spotted (unspotted- like the plant shown- and albino plants are not uncommon), lip toothed or lobed on the side; column stout 3.5 to 4.5 mm

Fruit:

Leaves:

stems with membranous bracts, no green leaves

Plant:

scapose

Habitat:

moist to fairly dry woods, in decomposing leaf litter

Distribution of species:

British Columbia to California, to Eastern North America

Distribution of genus:

more or less 10 species: North America and Central America