Pyrola chlorantha (Greenish-Flowered Wintergreen) - photos and description
Origin: Native.
General: Plants with a single scape rising from a basal rosette of leaves. Stems and petioles are reddish. Plants glabrous.
Flowers: Grow in a cylindric raceme, the flowers are mostly white with a tinge of green. The styles are curved and protrude out of the corolla. Flowers measured at 10 mm in diameter and 6 mm long. We observed the number of flowers varying from 3 to 10.
Leaves: Leaves are basal, orbicular. We measured a leaf blade at 2 cm long and wide. Leaf blades shorter than the petioles.
Height: Height listed in Budd's Flora to 20 cm, we measured plants to 22 cm tall.
Habitat: Moist coniferous forest.
Abundance: Common.
Synonym: Listed in some of the field guides we use as Pyrola virens.
How to identify this species: Flowers white, leaf petioles are as long or longer than the leaf blades.
When and where photographed: Photos taken in mossy spruce woods, June 17th and 24th, Nisbet Provincial Forest, about 400 km north of our home in Regina, SK.