I would still like to see the intermediate form with flowers or immature seed pods half up. We don’t have that documented here in any photos on MO.

when the flower stalk is mature, the fruits are erect. they are also described as “pale yellow to whitish” in summer fruitings and reddish in the fall, and both may appear at the same time, as I discovered in Alaska in August.
Nice treatment of this sp. in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_hypopitys

there appear to be two distinct forms to this sp., at least as proposed here on MO: one with droopy flowers (the majority) and the others upright, like mine and Drew’s and Martin’s.

Which one, or both, are correct?