Monotropa uniflora L.

Monotropa coccinea Zucc. Flora 15^: Beibl. 100. 1832
Monotropa coccinea mexicana Lange, Vidensk. Meddel. 1867: 119. 1868. Monotropa coccinea nicaraguensis Lange, Vidensk. Meddel. 1867: 119. 1868.
Plants mostly 1-2 dm. tall, red, becoming black in age or in drying, the stems usually clustered; leaves lax or spreading, the blades ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate on the lower part of the stem, lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate to linear above, mostly 0.5-1 cm. long, the upper ones much longer than the lower; flower urceolate or campanulate; sepals oblong to linearoblong, mostly 12-14 mm. long, erose above the middle; petals obovate to spatulate, about as long as the sepals, glabrous and eciliate; ovary globose or spheroidal; style much shorter than the ovary; filaments glabrous; capsule spheroidal.
Type LOCALITY : Mexico.
Distribution: Mexico, Central America, and Colombia; reported from Jamaica.

Monotropa uniflora L. Sp. PI. 387. 1753
Monotropa Morrisoniana Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 266. 1803. Monotropa Morrisoni Pers. Syn. PI. 1: 469. 1805.
Plants 0.5-3 dm.tall, white or pink, or rarely deep-red, becoming black in age or in drying, the stems often clustered; leaves erect, the blades suborbicular or ovate on the lower part of the stem to oblong or lanceolate, mostly 1 cm. long or less, the upper ones relatively longer than the lower; flower campanulate; sepals spatulate, oblong-spatulate, or oblong, mostly 15-18 mm. long, erose near the apex or erosetoothed, glabrous; petals spatulate, or dilated above the middle, longer than the sepals, pubescent within, ciliate below the middle; ovary ovoid, fluted; style much shorter than the ovary; filaments pubescent; capsule ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 1-1.5 cm. long.
Type locality: Maryland.
Distribution: Newfoundland to Washington, Florida, and California.