USDA Plants** Flora of N. America** ITIS
Scientific Name:
Monotropa hypopitys
Common Name: Pine-sap
Origin: Native
Notes: Nomenclature changes, which include the genus Monotropa, are being debated as I write. It appears that Monotropa hypopitys will become Hypopitys americana. It is one of a number of achlorophyllous plants which may be given a new taxonommic position.
Additional references:
1, * Google pictures.
Field Marks for Identification:
Flowers:
Spring to fall; petals yellowish to red; pedicels with multiple nodding flowers becoming
erect in fruit; petals usually 5, sepals absent or not similar to subtending bracts, nectary lobes 8-10 paired and stout not
oblong; seeds numerous and
small, less than 1 mm long, mostly winged .
Leaves: reduced or missing, achlorophyllous.
Glossaries of botanical terms:
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