I was recently in a large southern Ohio forest, casting about for various interesting summer plants. The temperature was about 85 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity — seasonally apropos. Those two ...

Editor's note: The ghost pipe is rare in California, and the National Park Service discourages visitors from touching or picking the plant for any reason. “Is that it?” my friend Jonah asks, pointing ...

EMPIRE, MI – The eerie beauty of this unusual plant has been spotted at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, an indication of a healthy forest at the park. Park staff wants to know: “Have you ever ...

During the summer, a mysterious, rare and unusual plant can be found in the deep shadows of the forest. Between June and September, pearly white ghost pipe plants appear. Hiding from the sun, they ...

Until a few years ago, most people who knew what a ghost pipe was had a degree in botany. The spindly stems of the parasitic species — which appear bleach-white because they lack chlorophyll — emerge ...

This study is the first to scientifically document use of ghost pipe in North America, along with the growing influence of social media and the internet on how and why people are turning to ghost pipe ...