RHH's photos with the keyword: corallorhiza maculata

This is another Coralroot, mycotrophic, leafless and without chlorophyll, and a rare albino form of the Western Spotted Coralroot (there is a picture of the ordinary spotted form just two pictures back), so it is the unspotted Spotted Coralroot. A friend found these and showed them to me recently. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2013/05/fifth-week-of-native-orchid-season.html

This is another shot of the Western Spotted Coralroot, Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata. This species, as noted before, is mycotrophic, feeding off decaying material in the soil through a relationship with a fungus. It was photographed in Larrabee State Park in the Chuckanut Mountains. nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2013/05/fifth-week-of-native-orchid-season.html

Found and photographed this in Deception Pass State Park last spring on a school camping trip. It reminds me of spring and of how eager I am to be out hiking again, but it is not a perfect picture. I was struggling with low light, a strong breeze and lenses that were fogging when I took the picture. The Western Spotted Coralroot is Corallorhiza maculata var. occidentalis, and is distinguished from the more common form by the rounded lip. It is leafless and without chlorophyll and obtains its nutrients from rotting material in the soil via a symbiotic relation with a fungus.