General: Perennial, slightly woody herb from slender, rhizome-like root; stems erect or nearly so, 3-10 cm tall.
Leaves: Evergreen, more or less basal, egg-shaped, 1-4 cm long including the short stalks, 0.6-2 cm wide, thin, veiny, finely-toothed, tips rounded.
Flowers: Inflorescence a single, terminal, nodding flower, 1.3-2.5 cm wide, fragrant; flower stem pimpled above, bracts 1 or 2, about midlength on naked stem; petals 5, distinct, widely spreading, waxy white to pinkish, lance egg-shaped, 7-11 mm long, entire or minutely-fringed; sepals 5, distinct, 1.5-3 mm long, usually bent back, margins ragged-fringed; styles 2-4 mm long, straight; stigmas large, 5-lobed; stamens 10.
Fruits: Capsules, nearly globe-shaped, 5-8 mm wide.
Mesic forests in the montane zone; infrequent in SC BC, frequent elsewhere in BC; circumboreal, N to AK, YT, and NT, E to NF and S to CA, NM, MN, and PA; Eurasia.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
BC Ministry of Environment:BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer,
the authoritative source for conservation information in British Columbia.
Synonyms and Alternate Names
Moneses uniflora subsp. reticulata (Nutt.) Calder & Roy L. Taylor Moneses uniflora var. reticulata (Nutt.) S.F. Blake Moneses uniflora var. uniflora Pyrola uniflora L.
