This is the same pretty parasitic plant growing amongst pines as I saw at Lake Fulmor.
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It looks like a type of coralroot to me, though I can't say which one.
Thanks very much. That's a good lead. The coral root the Mt. San Jacinto Natural History Association website tells me is recorded in the area is Corallorhiza maculate, the spotted coral root, and it's not that. The flowers in my photos are also simpler in structure than the strongly fuzed zygomorphic flowers I see in the pictures of Corallorhiza maculate.
I've unsuccessfully looked through the parasitic plants and orchids listed for the San Jacinto mountains at http://homepage.mac.com/erik.blume/Plants/PlantCheckList_SanJacinto.html.
It did see it occasionally so I suspect it's on the list somewhere.
I think according to the new Jepson Manual this is considered P. picta, though it has also been referred to as P. aphylla.
Yes, that's it. Thanks!
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