Corallorhiza maculataRaf.

spotted coralroot

WFO wfo-1000053622 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Corallorhiza maculata, photographed by Pierre Cartier
fig. a Pierre Cartier, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204762549
Corallorhiza maculata, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201900797
Corallorhiza maculata, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. c Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200309547
Corallorhiza maculata, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. d Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202999152
Corallorhiza maculata, photographed by Ian Adams
fig. e Ian Adams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205180232
Corallorhiza maculata, photographed by Jonathan Curley
fig. f Jonathan Curley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193095687
Corallorhiza maculata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. g Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 161155569
Corallorhiza maculata, photographed by Ian Adams
fig. h Ian Adams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205680983

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 3,005 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 3,005 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cladorhiza maculata (Raf.) Raf.
  • Corallorhiza grabhamii Cockerell
  • Corallorhiza leimbachiana Suksd.
  • Corallorhiza maculata f. aurea P.M.Br.
  • Corallorhiza maculata f. flavida (M.Peck) Farw.
  • Corallorhiza maculata f. immaculata (M.Peck) J.T.Howell
  • Corallorhiza maculata f. intermedia (Farw.) Farw.
  • Corallorhiza maculata f. punicea (Bartlett) Weath. & J.Adams
  • Corallorhiza maculata f. rubra P.M.Br.
  • Corallorhiza maculata subsp. occidentalis (Lindl.) Cockerell
  • Corallorhiza maculata var. flavida (M.Peck) Cockerell
  • Corallorhiza maculata var. fusca Bartlett
  • Corallorhiza maculata var. immaculata M.Peck
  • Corallorhiza maculata var. intermedia Farw.
  • Corallorhiza maculata var. ozettensis Tisch
  • Corallorhiza maculata var. punicea Bartlett
  • Corallorhiza mexicana Lindl.
  • Corallorhiza multiflora Nutt.
  • Corallorhiza multiflora var. flavida M.Peck
  • Corallorhiza multiflora var. occidentalis Lindl.
  • Corallorhiza multiflora var. sulphurea Suksd.
  • Neottia mexicana (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Neottia multiflora (Nutt.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.