!Corallorrhiza trifida Chatelain 1760 Photo courtesy of T.H.Pain and the Orchids of France and Europe

Plants en situ var. verna Photo courtesy of Zachary Bradford

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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 from Russia, Europe and Turkey, then across the Atlantic to all of the northern US and Canada that blooms on an erect, racemose, many flowered green inflorescence occuring in the late spring and early summer and is found in bogs and swamp as well as along roadside ditches.

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

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