| Like Indian pipes, beechdrops have none of the chlorophyll of most plants and thus are not green. |
| The dried stems of beechdrops can often be found through the winter. |
| Like all other members of the Broom-rape family, beechdrops lacks chlorophyll and is wholly parasitic, stealing nutrients from the roots of beech trees. |
| Appearing in late summer and fall, beechdrops are common throughout southern Ontario wherever there are beech forests. |
