Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa ...

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 ...

A unique pipe carved by Amos Owen, a deceased Prairie Island Indian Community spiritual leader, is missing from a locked case at the Goodhue County History Center. The absence of the eagle claw bowl, ...