Species Orchid, Autumn Coralroot, Tooth-Like Root Corrallorhiza

This saprophytic orchid is like a poor-flowered version of the spotted coralroot. The plants are quite thin with sparse flowers. They a...Read Morere maroon-purple with a white, magenta-spotted lip. It is probably the least showy of the coralroots (not that any are really showy). It is very rare in canada, found only in S. Ontario but it is widespread in the US growing from the Great lakes south to Texas then east. It is absent from Maine, Vermont and Florida. They grow in rich deciduous forests.