CORALLORHIZA STRIATA

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Meaning:

Nearly leafless wildflower with erect reddish-purple stems bearing racemes of pale pinkish and brownish-striped flowers; western Canada to Mexico

Synonyms:

Corallorhiza striata; striped coral root

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Corallorhiza striata" is a kind of...):

coral root (a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor)

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