So what are mycotrophic and heterotrophic wildflowers, you ask? In a nutshell, these plants have no green parts thus no chlorophyll and do not make there own food. They rely on other plants for sustenance and growth. I won’t go into the scientific explanations of the two types; you can do that on your own if you want more info. I grew up calling saprophytes but the science of these types of wildflowers has progressed and created two other categories for non-chlorophyll plants. They are usually fairly rare, or as the Gnome Plant, very rare. Some like the Coralroots, are pretty common in our forests. There are very specific symbiotic relationships between these wildflowers and their hosts.