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liverleaf wintergreen, pink wintergreen

Habit Plants 10–45 cm; rhizomatous.
Leaves

ovate, elliptic; round or reniform, 15–75 × 10–55 mm, not mottled, abaxially dull and light green to purplish, adaxially shiny and dark green; leathery;

margins entire or crenulate or denticulate;

tips obtuse to acute;

petioles 10–80 mm, glabrous.

Inflorescences

1 per stem, 4–29-flowered;

bracts ovate to oblong-ovate, 3–15 × 1–3.5 mm.

Pedicels

3–12 mm.

Flowers

sepals triangular to triangular-ovate, 1.5–5.5 × 1–3 mm; length > width, green or pinkish with thin white to pinkish margins;

margins entire to denticulate;

tips acute;

corollas spreading;

petals obovate to round, 4.5–9.0 × 3–6 mm, white to pink or purplish red;

margins entire;

stamens 4–7.5 mm;

anthers 2–4 mm;

styles exserted; bent sideways to downward, 7–10 mm;

stigmas ~1 mm wide; without subtending ring of hairs.

Fruits

depressed-globose, 4–8 mm.

2n

=46.

Pyrola asarifolia

Distribution
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Discussion

Asia, North America. 3 subspecies; 2 subspecies treated in Flora.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 634
Stephen Meyers
Sibling taxa
P. aphylla, P. chlorantha, P. minor, P. picta
Subordinate taxa
P. asarifolia ssp. asarifolia, P. asarifolia ssp. bracteata
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