Monotropa uniflora L.

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PLANTS OF FLORIDA, U.S.A.
Pyrolaceae
Monotropa uniflora L.
Leon County: before drying, plant at anthesis
white with black streaks and blotches, the
flower strongly bodding. After anthesis, the
flower becomes erect and the plant gradually
becomes pinkish.
In upland, woodland with large pines, P.echlna-
ta and P. taeda, widely scattered, their crowns
in an overstory, beneath which hardwoods form
a rather dense understory, the latter composed
mainly of the following: Quercus nigra, Q.
falcata, Q. michauxii, Q. alba, Carya glabra,
C. tomento^a, Cornus florIda, Sassafras albidum
Llquidambar styraciflua. Site was until 1966
annually burned, open pineland with herbaceous
ground flora. Last burn, an accidental one,
was in 1967.
R. K. Godfrey
83651
27 October 1989
HARVARD UNIVERSITY HERBARIA
04226733