• Taxonomic hierarchy:

• Subspecies: Hypopitys monotropa ssp monotropa (a subspecies of yellow bird’s-nest)
• Species: Hypopitys monotropa (Yellow Bird’s-nest)
• Family: ERICACEAE (heaths, heathers, rhododendrons, azaleas & wintergeeens)
• Order: ERICALES (heaths, heathers, azaleas, primroses, loosestrifes and balsams)
• Subclass: EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
• Class: MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
• Phylum: TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
• Kingdom: PLANTAE (plants)
• Domain: Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
• Life: BIOTA (living things)

• Hypopitys monotropa ssp monotropa is also a member of:

• Woody plants - subshrubs (via Ericaceae)
• Broadleaved shrubs - broadleaved shrubs (via Ericaceae)
• Endomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs - endomycorrhizal or endotrophic mycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs (via Ericaceae)
• Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs - endomycorrhizal or endotrophic mycorrhizal trees and shrubs (via Endomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs)
• Broadleaved trees and shrubs - broadleaved trees and shrubs (via Endomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs)
• Xylophytes - broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers (via Broadleaved trees and shrubs)
• Endomycorrhizal plants - plants that form endomycorrhiza (via Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs)
• Trees and shrubs - trees and shrubs, including conifers (via Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs)
• Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants - trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers (via Broadleaved shrubs)

Notes:

Flower 12.5mm long.

Faded flowers and immature fruits.

Stamens and inside of petals ciliate.

Ovary pubescent.

The following literature was used to identify this find:

• Stace, C., 1997. New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2), Second edition, 1130pp, Cambridge University Press