Pyrola americana
American wintergreen | |
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1913 illustration[1] | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Ericaceae |
Genus: | Pyrola |
Species: | P. americana
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Binomial name | |
Pyrola americana Sweet
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Pyrola americana, the American wintergreen, is a plant species native to Canada and the United States. It has been reported from every Canadian province from Newfoundland to Manitoba, as well as from St. Pierre & Miquelon plus the northeastern US from Maine south along the Appalachian Mountains to extreme northeastern Tennessee. It also occurs in all the Great Lakes states and in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It grows in moist forests up to an elevation of 2100 m.[3][4]
Pyrola americana is a small herb rarely more than 4 cm tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are round to egg-shaped, up to 8 cm long, usually dark green with whitish tissue along the veins. Flowers are white to pinkish. Fruit is a dry capsule about 4 mm across.[3][5][6][7][8][9]
References
- ^ Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 2: 668.
- ^ Tropicos
- ^ a b Flora of North America v 8 p 380
- ^ BONAP (Biota of North America Project) floristic synthesis, Pyrola americana
- ^ Sweet, Robert. 1830. Hortus Britannicus, ed. 2 341.
- ^ Křísa, Bohdan. 1966. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 85(4): 628.
- ^ Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. 1920. Rhodora 22(259): 122.
- ^ Fernald, M. 1950. Gray's Manual of Botany (ed. 8) i–lxiv, 1–1632. American Book Co., New York.
- ^ Connecticut Botanical Society
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