!Corallorrhiza trifida Chatelain 1760 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Photo Website

Another Plant Photo courtesy of T.H.Pain and the Orchids of France and Europe

Plants en situ var. verna Photo courtesy of Zachary Bradford

to LATE to EARLY

Common Name Northern Coral-Root - The Early Coral-Root

Flower Size 1/3" [1 cm]

A small sized, cold to cool growing, saprophytic, leafless terrestrial found in Greenland, Iceland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, France, Denmark, Germany, Czechslovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Western Russia, central Russia, Eastern Russia, western Siberia, Kazakistan, Kirgistan, eastern Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea, westerrn Himalayas, Pakistan, Nepal, Alaska, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchuan, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Islands, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Labrador, Newfoundland, Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsyvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, Massachusets, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine in northern montane woodlands, marshes, wet dune slacks and beechwood and conifer forests at elevations up to 2300 meters with a hairless, yellowish stem enveloped by 2 to 4 sheaths and has scale like bracts that blooms in the spring and early summer on a lax, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence with small, slightly pendant flowers.

Synonyms Corallorrhiza anandae Malhotra & Balodi 1984 publ. 1985; Corallorhiza corallorhiza (L.) MacMill.; Corallorhiza dentata Host; Corallorhiza ericetorum Drejer; Corallorhiza halleri (L.) Rich.; Corallorrhiza innata Brown; Corallorrhiza intacta Cham.; Corallorrhiza integra Châtel. 1760; Corallorrhiza jacquemontii Decne. 1844; Corallorhiza nemoralis Sw. ex Nyman 1882; Corallorrhiza neottia Scop., Fl. Carniol. 1772; Corallorhiza occidentalis La Pilaye; Corallorrhiza trifida subsp. virescens (Drejer) Løjtnant 1996; Corallorrhiza trifida var. verna (Nutt.) Fernald 1946; Corallorrhiza trifida var. virescens (Drejer) Farw. 1941; Corallorhiza verna Nutt. 1823; Corallorhiza virescens Drejer ex Heynh. 1843; Corallorrhiza wyomingensis Hellm. & K.Hellm. 1931; Cymbidium corallorrhiza [L.] Sw. 1800; Epidendrum corallorrhizon (L.) Poir. 1810; Epipactis corallorrhiza (L.) Crantz 1769; Helleborine corallorrhiza (L.) F.W.Schmidt 1793; Neottia corallorrhiza (L.) Kuntze 1891; *Ophrys corallorrhiza Linne

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 5 1960; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 6 1982 photo; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 3 1991 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 4/329 1991 as C trifida var verna; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 5 1994 photo; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005; Native Orchids of Shaanxi - Shaanxi Science & Technology Press 2007 photo fide;

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