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Chimaphila umbellata
Also called Prince’s pine, Umbellate wintergreen, Prince's Pine, Common Pipsissewa, Common Prince's Pine
Pipsissewa is a small evergreen perennial of cool temperate Northern Hemisphere woodlands and sandy soils, growing about 35 cm tall with shiny toothed leaves and small white to pink flowers. It is partly parasitic on soil fungi, so it is hard to cultivate and is best left in the wild.
Chimaphila umbellata, the umbellate wintergreen, pipsissewa, or prince's pine, is a small perennial flowering plant found in dry woodlands, or sandy soils. It is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Although it has green leaves year-round, like some related plants, such as Pyrola it receives a significant portion of its nutrition from fungi in the soil (that is, it is a partial myco-heterotroph.
Some Plateau Indian tribes used a boil of prince's pine to treat tuberculosis.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chimaphila umbellata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
