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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