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Monotropa uniflora

one-flower Indian-pipe
Habit Myco-heterotrophic plants with a cluster of simple flowering stems, waxy-white, blackening with age, 5-25 cm. tall.
Leaves

Leaves scale-like, non-green, alternate.
Flowers

Flower single, terminal, drooping, narrowly bell-shaped, 1.5-2 cm. long;

calyx obsolete, but upper stem bracts calyx-like;

petals 5, distinct, white, saccate at the base and broadened above, hairy on the inner surface;

stamens 10, included, anthers without awns, opening by 2 curving slits;

ovary superior.
Fruits

Capsule sub-globose, about 6 mm. long.

Monotropa uniflora
Flowering time May-August
Habitat In forest understory and on forest edge, often in deep soil, at low to moderate elevations.
Distribution
Occurring west of the Cascades crest, in the Columbia River Gorge, and in the northeastern counties in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Idaho and Montana, and in all other areas of North America except the southern Rocky Mountain states.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
M. hypopitys
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