Biology:Pyrola americana
| American wintergreen | |
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| 1913 illustration[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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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| Synonyms[2] | |
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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 United States 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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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
Wikidata ☰ Q16988962 entry
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