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Sweet Pinesap

Monotropsis odorata

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.January 11, February 13, March 28, April 20, May 20, June 12, July 10, August 9, September 12, October 12, November 9, December 10.
United States497
North Carolina151
Virginia86
Tennessee81
South Carolina52
Kentucky39
Georgia38
Maryland26
West Virginia20
Alabama5

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification

Group and habits

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderHeathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales
Familyheath family · Ericaceae
GenusPygmy Pipes · Monotropsis

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Sweet Pinesap with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.