Catching up with communications in the Botany Group during July. This is from an email from Jocie to the group on July 18.
Here is a message from Gary and Katy with some plants of interest:
Below are photos of wintergreens and allies at the back of the woodlot Katy and I have on Forbidden. Thanks to Al Hopwood for his photos.
Pink wintergreen (Pyrola asarifola) 
White-veined wintergreen (Pyrola picta) 
Leafless wintergreen (Pyrola aphylla)
I think of these plants as being grouped into:
CHLOROPHYTES: Pink wintergreen (Pyrola asarifola) and white-veined wintergreen (P. picta)
SAPROPHYTES: Pinesap (Hypopitys monotropa) and Indian-pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
PARASITES: Leafless wintergreen (P. aphylla). This is blue-listed. It indirectly parasitizes Douglas fir through mycorrhizal fungi.
In addition there were other saprophytes, including gnome plant, pinedrops, and western coralroot. I have never seen such numbers of these leafless flowers before. Is it the weather? A harbinger of mushrooms to come?
