OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Corallorhiza wisteriana   FAMILY Orchidaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Corallorhiza wisteriana   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Corallorhiza wisteriana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

Corallorhiza wisteriana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-20-003:

Corallorhiza wisteriana   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Corallorrhiza wisteriana

 

COMMON NAME:
Spring Coralroot, Wister's Coralroot


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image of Corallorhiza wisteriana, Spring Coralroot, Wister's Coralroot

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_cowi2_001_lvd

        

image of Corallorhiza wisteriana, Spring Coralroot, Wister's Coralroot

Jim Fowler    jafcorallorhizaw_4040208

February    Marion County    FL

Lip bright white and usually dotted with vivid magenta-purple spots, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: The Story.

image of Corallorhiza wisteriana, Spring Coralroot, Wister's Coralroot

Jim Fowler    jafcoralwist_group040208

February    Marion County    FL

Usually in small colonies of 2-12 stems, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Corallorhiza wisteriana, Spring Coralroot, Wister's Coralroot

JK Marlow    jkm100313_236

March    Grady County    GA

Wolf Creek Preserve

image of Corallorhiza wisteriana, Spring Coralroot, Wister's Coralroot

Mark A. Musselman    mam_coralroot032710

March    Dorchester County    SC

Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest

image of Corallorhiza wisteriana, Spring Coralroot, Wister's Coralroot

Mark A. Musselman    mam_coralroot032710c

March    Dorchester County    SC

Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest

The lips resemble little tongues hanging from each open flower, per Wild Orchids of South Carolina: The Story.

image of Corallorhiza wisteriana, Spring Coralroot, Wister's Coralroot

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_wisteriana_2

May        

Stem yellowish-brown to purplish partly because the plant lacks chlorophyll, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Corallorhiza wisteriana   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Corallorhiza wisteriana   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Corallorhiza wisteriana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Corallorhiza wisteriana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-20-003:
Corallorhiza wisteriana   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Corallorrhiza wisteriana

 

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Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist to dry forests, usually in base-rich soils, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
None

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring
Light brown/ Dark reddish-brown occasionally yellowish
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
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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