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Pyrola americana
Pyrola americana, the American wintergreen, is a plant species native to Canada and the United States.
It has been reported from every Canadian province from Newfoundland to Manitoba, as well as from Saint Pierre and Miquelon plus the northeastern US from Maine south along the Appalachian Mountains to extreme northeastern Tennessee. It also occurs in all the Great Lakes states and in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It grows in moist forests up to an elevation of 2100 m.
Liverleaf wintergreen · Greenflowered wintergreen · Cryptic Pyrola · Tooth Leaved Wintergreen · Waxflower shinleaf · Largeflowered wintergreen · Intermediate Wintergreen · Snowline wintergreen · Whiteveined wintergreen · Round-leaved wintergreen · Pyrola rugosa · Wintergreen
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pyrola americana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
