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Indian pipes
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Indian pipes

Monotropa

Monotropa is a genus of 5 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants, formerly classified in the family Monotropaceae, but now included within the Ericaceae. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, but are generally scarce or rare.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Ghost Pipe

speciesMonotropa uniflora

pinesap

speciesMonotropa hypopitys

red Indian pipe

speciesMonotropa coccinea

Southern Ghost Pipe

speciesMonotropa brittonii

Monotropa callistoma

speciesMonotropa callistoma

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49478.