Karen McCann recently found about 20 Indian peace pipes with white single flowers where she lives in Gloucester. “The last time I saw one was when I was about eight to nine years old,” she writes in ...

At the tip of each stem, Indian pipe grows a waxy, inch-long flower bearing four to five small petals. Young flowers face earthward on the end of down-turned stalks. This familiar silhouette reminded ...

Indian pipes are neat little woodland plants. Ghostly white, they are members of a group of plants that don't use photosynthesis to make their own food but instead "prey" upon fungi, stealing ...

The woods of midsummer are dark and shady. The canopy overhead is solid with green leaves, and this thickness serves as a shield to stop sunlight from reaching the forest floor. Here, out of the light ...

When you're walking in the woods in late August and September, keep your eyes open for the little plants the botanist Linnaeus classified as Monotropa unifora. We call them Indian pipes. You'll see ...

Indian pipes are a neat little woodland plant. Ghostly white, they are members of a group of plants that don't use photosynthesis to make their own food but instead "prey" upon fungi, stealing ...