Pyrola minor |
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lesser wintergreen, snowline wintergreen |
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Habit | Plants 6–25 cm; rhizomatous. |
Leaves | oblong-elliptic; ovate, obovate, or round, 10–37 × 8–25 mm, not mottled, abaxially dull and light green, adaxially dull to shiny and green to dark green, slightly leathery; margins crenulate; tips obtuse or rounded; petioles 2–30 mm, glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 1 per stem, 3–15-flowered; bracts lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 3–5 × 0.5–1.5 mm. |
Pedicels | 2.5–4.5 mm. |
Flowers | radially symmetric; sepals deltate; ~1.5 mm; margins entire to denticulate, green or pink with thin white to pinkish margins; tips acute to obtuse; corollas cup-shaped; petals obovate to broadly elliptic, 3–5 × 2.5–4 mm, white or pink; margins entire; stamens 2–3.5 mm; anthers 0.3–0.9 mm; styles included; straight, 0.5–1.5 mm; stigmas ~1 mm wide. |
Fruits | depressed-globose, 3–5.5 mm. |
2n | =46. |
Pyrola minor |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | Moist montane forests and streambanks. Flowering Jun–Aug. 900–2200 m. BW, Casc, ECas. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to AK, east to Greenland, southeast to NM; Asia, Europe. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 635 Stephen Meyers |
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