Scientific name:
Monotropa uniflora General: Fleshy, waxy-white or pinkish perennial, blackening with age, appearing in clusters of flowering, unbranched stems 5-25 cm tall.
Leaves: Linear or lance-shaped to oval, scale-like, up to 1 cm long.
Flowers: White, single, to 2 cm long, narrowly bell-shaped, at first nodding or curved to 1 side; petals sac-like and broadening at base.
Fruits: Erect, oval to circular capsules, about 6 mm long, brown and splitting open when mature.
Ecology: In humus in shaded, usually mature, coniferous forest; at low elevations, from the southern B.C. coast and Vancouver Island plus the Skeena and Nass river valleys area south to California; not on the mid-coast, not on the Queen Charlotte Islands.