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Questions and Answers: 2014

Question: Taken roadside, wetlands woodlands, Windham, NH. ? Indian Pipe or Fiddlehead Fern?

  • Question

    Taken roadside, wetlands woodlands, Windham, NH. ? Indian Pipe or Fiddlehead Fern?

    Answer

    tracyd123, these are Monotropa uniflora (one-flowered Indian-pipe). These are non-chlorophyllous members of the Ericaceae (heath family). If these were ferns fiddleheads, they would have come up long ago (in the spring).