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Greenflowered wintergreen

Pyrola chlorantha

Also called Green Flowered Wintergreen, Green Wintergreen, Green Flower Wintergreen, Green Flowered Pyrola, Greenish Pyrola, Greenish Wintergreen, Green Flowered Shineleaf

Greenflowered wintergreen
Photo: Bernd Haynold, CC BY 2.5
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
Subarctic & Temp. Northern Hemisphere
Climate
temperate

About

Pyrola chlorantha, the greenflowered wintergreen, is a species of the plant genus Pyrola. It has a circumboreal distribution and is found throughout the northern latitudes of Eurasia and North America.

Pyrola chlorantha is found in the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, such as the Sierra Nevada in California. It is considered an endangered species in several of the U.S. states.

Other Pyrola plants

American wintergreen · Liverleaf 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 chlorantha 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.

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