Pyrola asarifolia |
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liverleaf wintergreen, pink wintergreen |
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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 |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | Asia, North America. 3 subspecies; 2 subspecies treated in Flora. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 634 Stephen Meyers |
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