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Pyrola chlorantha

(Greenflowered Wintergreen)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Green Shinleaf, Green Wintergreen, Greenflowered Wintergreen, Wintergreen

Description

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Genus Pyrola

Herbs suffruticose , evergreen , erect , glabrous . Rootstock long, slender, branched, with sparse fine roots . Aerial stem ascending , not branched, scaly at base . Leaves in a rosette at base of caudex , long petiolate ; leaf blade abaxially light green, adaxially green, margin entire or serrate. Scapes long, slender, with scalelike bracts at base. Flowers many, nodding , in racemes . Calyx 5-lobed, persistent . Stamens glabrous; anthers opening by pores . Ovary depressed-globose; style exserted, usually curved distally and dilated apically into a ring ; stigma capitate, shortly 5-lobed. Capsules nodding, valves connected by fibers at valve margins. Seeds many, small, with thin testa prolonged at both ends. n = 23, 46.

Between 30 and 40 species: N temperate regions , extending south to Indonesia (N Sumatra) ; 26 species (15 endemic) in China.[1]

Physical Description

Species Pyrola chlorantha

 

Habit: Subshrub , Shrub

Flowers: Bloom Period: June. • Flower Color: pale green

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 6-12" tall.

Habitat

 

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,091 meters (0 to 13,422 feet).[2]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Partial to Full Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 5b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Pyrola chlorantha var. convoluta (W. Bart.) Fern.
  2. Pyrola chlorantha var. paucifolia Fern.
  3. Pyrola chlorantha var. revoluta Jennings
  4. Pyrola convoluta W. Bart.
  5. Pyrola oxypetala Austin Ex Gray
  6. Pyrola virens Schreb.
  7. Pyrola virens var. convoluta (W. Bart.) Fern.
  8. Pyrola virens var. saximontana Fern.
  9. Thelaia Chlorantha

Notes

Publishing author : Fernald Publication : Rhodora 43: 167 1941 Basionym author: (Barton) Publishing author: Jenn. Publication: J. Wash . Acad. Sci. 10: 455 1920 Publishing author: Fernald Publication: Rhodora 22: 51 1920 Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Pyrola

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 136 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

P. alba · P. albo-reticulata · P. alboreticulata · P. alpestris · P. alpina · P. americana (Round-Leaved Wintergreen) · P. andresii · P. angustifolia · P. aphylla · P. aphylla leptosepala · P. aphylla paucifolia · P. asarifolia (Liver-Leaf Wintergreen) · P. asarifolia americana · P. asarifolia incarnata · P. asarifolia ovata · P. asarifolia purpurea · P. asarifolia subsp. bracteata (Pink Wintergreen) · P. asarifolia subsp. incarnata · P. asarifolia var. asarifolia (Liver-Leaf Wintergreen) · P. asarifolium · P. atropurpurea · P. atrovirens · P. blanda · P. borealis · P. bracteata · P. californica · P. calliantha · P. calliantha var. tibetana · P. canadensis · P. carpatica · P. chimoides · P. chlorantha (Greenflowered Wintergreen) · P. chlorantha subsp. fallax · P. clorantha · P. compacta · P. conferta · P. convallariaefolia · P. convoluta · P. corbieri · P. corymbosa · P. dahurica · P. declinata · P. decorata · P. dentata · P. dentata integra · P. denticulata · P. durandi · P. elata · P. elatior · P. elegantula · P. elegantula var. jiangxiensis · P. elliptica (Waxflower Shinleaf) · P. faurieana · P. forrestiana · P. frutescens · P. fruticosa · P. gracilis · P. grandiflora (Large Flowered Wintergreen) · P. groenlandica · P. handeliana · P. hopeiensis · P. hybrida · P. incarnata · P. intermedia · P. japonica · P. liebmannii · P. longifolia · P. macrocalyx · P. maculata · P. major · P. maritima · P. markonica · P. mattfeldiana · P. media · P. menziesii · P. minor (Snowline Wintergreen) · P. minor f. brevis · P. minor faurieana · P. monophylla · P. montana · P. morrisonensis · P. nephrophylla · P. norvegica · P. obovata · P. obtusata · P. occidentalis · P. oreodoxa · P. oxypetala · P. pallida · P. paradoxa · P. picta (White-Veined Wintergreen) · P. picta dentata · P. picta f. aphylla · P. picta integra · P. picta var. suksdorfii · P. pumila · P. renifolia · P. rockii · P. rosea · P. rotundifolia

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 25, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Mingyuan Fang, Ruizheng Fang, Mingyou He, Linzheng Hu, Hanbi Yang, Haining Qin, Tianlu Min, David F. Chamberlain, Peter Stevens, Gary D. Wallace & Arne Anderberg "Pyrola". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 248. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Mean = 383.630 meters (1,258.629 feet), Standard Deviation = 525.750 based on 1,247 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/1/2009