This northeastern species extends into southern Appalachian and Ozarkian regions, with recent records from all adjacent states (K), but it is currently unknown within Ky. The coll. mapped here for WHIT (KY) was made by A.R. Crandall in the 1880s at "Corbin" and might be from an adjacent county. The record from EDMO (or perhaps BARR) is based on Hussey's (1876) listing of C. spectabile Sw., which was reported by other authors from Ky. during the 19th Century, but the synonomy is uncertain (M); he may have meant Galearis and no coll. has not been located. Records from LEE (reported to Campbell et al. 1989) and PULA (D. Gooch, pers. comm.) are unverified sight records from the 1960s or 1970s. There are also 1830s colls. from Hamilton Co. in se. Ohio, close to Ky. (Braun 1967). The species is also known from Claiborne Co. of ne. Tenn., and it has been recently discovered in w. Tenn. (APSC).