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Ericaceae
Hypopitys

not marked as a favorite taxon Hypopitys americana (A.P. de Candolle) Nuttall. Common name: Common Eastern Pinesap. Phenology: May-Jul (-Aug). Habitat: Forests. Distribution: Apparently widely distributed in eastern North America, but the precise distribution unknown. This and H. lanuginosa are mapped the same for now, as they are being disentangled.

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: This is a placeholder for entities discussed by Broe (2014) as clades; additional study will result in the recognition of a number of species (John Freudenstein, pers.comm., 2025).

Synonymy ⓘ: = K4; >< Hypopitys americana (DC.) Nutt. — S, misapplied; < Hypopitys monotropa Crantz — Va, misapplied to North American plants; > Hypopitys species 3 — NSProv; < Monotropa hypopithys L. — C, F, Fl5, G, Il, NcTx, Pa, RAB, Tn, Tx, W, WH3, WV, Luteyn et al (1996), Wallace (1975), misapplied to North American plants; < Monotropa hypopitys L. — Ar, FNA8, NS, POWO, misapplied to North American plants; < Monotropa hypopitys L. var. hypopitys — Tat. Basionym: Hypopitys multiflora Scopoli var. americana DC. 1839

Links to other floras: < Monotropa hypopitys - FNA8

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Heliophily ⓘ: 2

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