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Gaultheria humifusa is a species of shrub in the heath family which is known by the common names alpine wintergreen and alpine spicy wintergreen. It is native to western North America, from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in moist subalpine mountain forests. It is a low, spreading shrub which may be quite small ...
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]
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] It is about 10 cm, 3.9 in high.
The plant is a calcifuge, favoring acidic soil, in pine or hardwood forests, although it generally produces fruit only in sunnier areas. [5] It often grows as part of the heath complex in an oak–heath forest. [6] [7] [8] G. procumbens spreads by means of long rhizomes, which are within the top 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) of soil ...
Pyroloideae is a subfamily of plants in the family Ericaceae.It was formerly treated as a separate family, Pyrolaceae. [1] It has also been treated as the tribe Pyroleae within the subfamily Monotropoideae.
Flowers of Pyrola grandiflora are generally large, composing of long pinkish sepals rather than broad (2–3 mm long and 1–1.5 mm wide) and white greenish white petals suffused with pink along with dark veins. [2] [3] It is usually described having a racemose inflorescence. [2] Pedicels are present, glabrous containing bract leaves 4–8 mm ...
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Gaultheria ovatifolia is a species of shrub in the heath family which is known by the common names western teaberry, Oregon spicy wintergreen, and slender wintergreen. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California , where it grows in high mountain forests.