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Lysimachia europaea (formerly known as Trientalis europaea) is a flowering plant in the primrose family Primulaceae, called by the common name chickweed-wintergreen [2] or arctic starflower. [3] It is a small herbaceous perennial plant with one or more whorls of leaves on a single slender erect stem. [ 4 ]
Gaultheria procumbens, also called the eastern teaberry, the checkerberry, [a] the boxberry, or the American wintergreen, is a species of Gaultheria native to northeastern North America from Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba, and south to Alabama. [1]
Pyrola minor, known by the common names snowline wintergreen, [2] lesser wintergreen, and common wintergreen, is a plant species of the genus Pyrola. It is a perennial herb or subshrub growing up to 1 ft (0.30 m) tall. [3] It has a Circumboreal distribution and can be found throughout the northern latitudes of Eurasia and North America. [4]
Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) essential oilThe Gaultheria species share the common characteristic of producing oil of wintergreen. Wintergreen oil is a pale yellow or pinkish fluid liquid that is strongly aromatic with a sweet, woody odor (components: methyl salicylate (about 98%), α-pinene, myrcene, delta-3-carene, limonene, 3,7-guaiadiene, and delta-cadinene) that gives such plants a ...
The species are commonly known as wintergreen, a name shared with several other related and unrelated plants (see wintergreen for details). They are native to northern temperate and Arctic regions. They are rather small plants with a rosette of simple orbicular or ovate leaves , with a flower stem bearing generally rather lax racemes of simple ...
Wintergreen soda was a flavored carbonated beverage once popular in North America. The flavoring that was added to wintergreen soda water was "nominally made out of teaberry leaves, or wintergreen." [1] Other regional common names used to describe Gaultheria procumbens included mountain berries, wintergreen plums, or checked berries. [1]
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Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen, also called striped wintergreen, striped prince's pine or rheumatism root) Chimaphila menziesii (little prince's pine) Chimaphila monticola; Chimaphila umbellata (umbellate wintergreen, pipsissewa, or prince's pine) Moneses Salisb. ex Gray: Moneses uniflora, one-flowered wintergreen; Orthilia Raf.