Striped Coralroot

This Coralroot has the largest and showiest flowers of any of the Coralroots in our area. It is also much less common than the other Coralroots, but like them all it is leafless and without chlorophyll and is monotrophic, depending for nourishment on a symbiotic relationship with a fungus in the soil.

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