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Corallorhiza maculata
Found from Canada south to Guatemala as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing, mycoheterotrophic, leafless terrestrial, blooming on an erect, 6 to 30" [15 to 75 cm] long, racemose, many [to 50] flowered, reddish inflorescence arising out of the ground occuring mostly in the summer through fall and is found in moist shady woods on rocky slopes in rich decaying humus and rotten leaves up to elevations of 3700 meters
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