Pine foot

Monotropa californica Eastwood, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29: 75, plate 7. 1902

Inflorescences 1-4 cm; bracts cream, 1-2 × 0.5-2 cm. Flowers: lateral sepals 1-1.8 × 0.5 cm, others 0.8-1.2 × 0.3-0.5 cm; petals oblong, 1-1.5 × 0.4-0.7 cm, base slightly saccate, apex rounded; stamens 0.6-1.1 cm; anthers horizontal at anthesis, 1-1.5 mm diam.; ovary 3-5 × 2.5-5 mm, glabrous; style 3-5 × 2-3 mm; stigma 5+ mm diam., apex depressed. Berries 5-8(-10) diam. Seeds ca. 0.2-0.4 mm diam.

Flowering late spring-summer. Moist, coniferous or mixed-deciduous forests; 30-1800 m; Calif., Oreg., Wash.