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Pyrola rugosa

Pyrola rugosa is a small perennial woodland herb in the heather family, native to central China. It is a wild plant of shaded temperate forest, rarely grown in gardens, and needs cool, humus-rich, shaded conditions.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Shade, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist but never waterlogged.
Soil
Cool, humus-rich, acidic woodland soil with leaf mould.
Temperature
Cool temperate conditions; hardy in cold winters, avoid heat.
How easy
Hard
Native range
C. China
Climate
temperate

About

Pyrola rugosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, within the genus Pyrola. It is native to it is a perennial species native to Central China and primarily inhabits temperate biomes.

Other Pyrola plants

American wintergreen · Liverleaf wintergreen · Greenflowered wintergreen · Cryptic Pyrola · Tooth Leaved Wintergreen · Waxflower shinleaf · Largeflowered wintergreen · Intermediate Wintergreen · Snowline wintergreen · Whiteveined wintergreen · Round-leaved wintergreen · Wintergreen

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pyrola rugosa 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.

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