The Answer To Red Asparagus

By the time the stalks were 8 inches tall and about as thick as a pencil, the flowers started to emerge. Each of the flowers are no bigger than the eraser on a pencil and they break into blossom from the lowest part of flower top only lasting a few days before the next bract of blooms emerge.


The official name is a Coral Root Spotted Orchid.
According to Go Botany this species is a North American Native plant:
Spotted coral-root is a saprophytic orchid, meaning that it obtains its nutrients from decaying organic matter through a parasitic relationship with a fungal mycelium, rather than from photosynthesis. It gets its common name from spots on the labellum, and from the swollen and branched, coral-like form of the rhizome.