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    (c) Richard Droker, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Alex Abair, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) Tom Hilton, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) Emily Scherer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) M.E. Sanseverino, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Nicholas Wei, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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Pacific coralroot

Corallorhiza mertensiana

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Corallorhiza mertensiana, or Pacific coralroot, is a coralroot orchid native to the shady conifer forests of northwestern North America. It also goes by the common names Western coralroot and Mertens' coralroot. Corallorhiza mertensiana was previously considered a subspecies of Corallorhiza maculata but was given species rank in 1997 by Freudenstein.

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