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Pyrola minor - (image 1 of 5)

Taxonomy

Family: Ericaceae

Habitat

Moist woods, restricted to high elevations in the southern part of its range.

Associates

Distribution

Circumboreal, south in North America to the higher mountains of New England, NY, and northern MI, and in the Western Cordillera.

Morphology

Rhizomatous perennial; leaves elliptic or round-oblong, 2-4 cm, rounded to truncate at both ends; scape 5-15 cm, with a loose raceme of 5-15 nodding white flowers; petals about 5 mm long; anthers very plump, 1 mm or less, broadly truncate to two wide terminal pores; style at anthesis about 2 mm long, about equaling the petals.

Notes

Flowers June

Wetland indicator: FAC

Differs from our other Pyrola spp. in having a straight rather than downward curving style that does not exceed the petals at anthesis.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.

The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

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