Pyrola picta |
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white-veined wintergreen, white-vein pyrola |
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Habit | Plants 5–40 cm; rhizomatous. |
Leaves | normal; but sometimes reduced or absent; ovate to spatulate, 5–75 × 4–45 mm, abaxially dull and light green to purplish, adaxially dull or shiny and green to dark green; veins white leathery; margins entire or denticulate; tips obtuse to acute; petioles 4–25 mm, glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 1–2(3), 4–22-flowered; bracts awl-shaped to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5–6 × 2–3 mm. |
Pedicels | 3–18 mm. |
Flowers | sepals ovate to deltate, 1–4 × 1–4 mm, usually fused 50% of their length, green with thin white to pinkish margins; margins entire or denticulate; tips acute; corollas spreading; petals obovate, 4–11 × 3–7 mm, white; greenish white, pink, or reddish; margins entire to denticulate; stamens 5–9 mm; anthers 2–5 mm; styles exserted; bent sideways to downward, 4–9 mm; stigmas 1–1.5 mm wide. |
Fruits | depressed-globose, 4–9 mm. |
2n | =46. |
Pyrola picta |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | Coniferous forests. Flowering May–Sep. 0–2300 m. BR, BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Est, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, east to SD, southeast to NM. Native. Plants with light green to purplish and dentate leaves are considered to be P. dentata by some authorities. Additionally, specimens with shorter sepals (less than two millimeters) and longer bracts (greater than four millimeters) have been described as P. crypta. See also discussions for P. aphylla and P. chlorantha. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 636 Stephen Meyers |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Pyrola crypta, Pyrola dentata, Pyrola dentata var. dentata, Pyrola dentata var. integra |
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