Pyrola minor
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Pyrola minor, known by the common names snowline wintergreen,[1] lesser wintergreen, and common wintergreen, is a plant species of the genus Pyrola. It is a perennial herb or subshrub growing up to Template:Convert tall.[2] It has a Circumboreal distribution and can be found throughout the northern latitudes of Eurasia and North America.[3] It grows in moist areas.[4] Flowers bloom June to August.[4] The plant is mostly self-pollinating; it does not even bother to attract pollinators with the scent of its flowers or by secreting nectar.[5]
Description
It is a sclerophyll, with leaves that appear in rosettes.[5] The blades are 2-5 cm wide[5] and simple and basal in arrangement.[3] They are quite thin, broadly elliptic with a round or abruptly tapering tip. The leaf-stalk is usually shorter than the blade. The spherical flowers are nodding, 5-7 mm wide. The sepals are triangular. Gynoecia are inside the flower, with a short style.[5] Flowers have five petals that are pale pink to rose in color.[4] The fruit of the flower are nodding 5-segmented capsules; the style of the gynoecia are preserved at the tip of the capsule.[5]
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- Pyrola
- Flora of temperate Asia
- Flora of Europe
- Flora of Canada
- Flora of the Northeastern United States
- Flora of the Western United States
- Flora of California
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- San Bernardino Mountains
- Flora of the Alps
- Plants described in 1753
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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