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Indian Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) Buncombe Co., NC 8 July 2006 Common statewide in NC in various forested habitats. This species is saprophytic, meaning it gets its nutrition from decomposing material in the soil and forest floor, and therefore it lacks chlorophyll. |
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Indian Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) Watauga Co., NC 23 July 2006 The flowers turn upright during fruit development and maturation. |
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Indian Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) Dutchess Co., NY 5 Aug 2008 |
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Indian Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) Dutchess Co., NY 5 Aug 2008 |
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Indian Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) Dutchess Co., NY 5 Aug 2008 |
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Pinesap (Hypopitys monotropa) Korstian Division, Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 26 Sep 2011 Classification of this plant has been fairly dynamic over the last few decades, and some scholars recognize it as Monotropa hypopithys. |
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Pinesap (Hypopitys monotropa) Korstian Division, Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 15 Oct 2006 Statewide and uncommon in NC in various forested habitats, this plant lacks chlorophyll and is parasitic on soil fungi. Fall-flowering populations are usually pinkish, while early season flowering plants are yellow-tawny colored. |
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Pinesap (Hypopitys monotropa) Korstian Division, Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 15 Oct 2006 |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.
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