Pyrola picta Sm.
white-veined wintergreen (Nootka wintergreen; whiteveined wintergreen)
Ericaceae (Crowberry family)
(Previously in Pyrolaceae)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
white-veined wintergreen (Nootka wintergreen; whiteveined wintergreen)
Ericaceae (Crowberry family)
(Previously in Pyrolaceae)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Species Information
General:
Perennial herb from slender rhizomes; sterile shoots with several, or a rosette of, leaves; flowering stems 1 to several, 10-30 cm tall, with several lance-shaped bracts.
Leaves:
Sometimes leafless; usually with at least a few basal leaves, evergreen, leathery, elliptic to egg-shaped (or oblanceolate), the blades 2-7 cm long, pointed or rounded at the tip, blunt to pointed at the base, entire to minutely-toothed, upper surfaces often dark green and greyish-mottled along the main veins, sometimes pale green and not mottled, lower surfaces often purple, sometimes bluish-waxy when young; stalks to 7 cm long.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a 5- to 25-flowered terminal raceme, the flowers about 1 cm wide, weakly bilaterally symmetric; flower stalks spreading, 4-10 mm long, from linear to lanceolate bracts less than length of stalks; corollas open, the petals yellowish or greenish-white to purplish, oval to egg-shaped, 6-8 mm long; sepals green to reddish, triangular to egg-shaped, about 2 mm long, tips pointed; anthers 2-5.5 mm long, sharp-pointed on the lower tips, pores on the sides of short tubes; styles declined, curved, about 10 mm long.
Fruits:
Capsules, globe-shaped, up to 5 mm wide.
Illustration
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Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Pyrola picta
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)
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)
| Site Information |
Value / Class |
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|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
692 | 0 | 1590 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
26 | 0 | 150 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
212 | 0 | 360 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
3 | 0 | 8 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
B | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
378 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
CWH | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BWBS(12), CWH(154), ESSF(4), ICH(112), IDF(59), MH(2), MS(20), SBS(4) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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Habitat and Range
Dry to mesic forests in the lowland and montane zones; frequent in SW BC, infrequent in SE BC; E to SW AB, and S to ID, MT, CO, and CA.Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Pyrola aphylla var. leptosepala Nutt.
Pyrola aphylla var. paucifolia T.J. Howell
Pyrola blanda Andres
Pyrola conardiana Andres
Pyrola dentata Sm.
Pyrola dentata var. apophylla Copeland
Pyrola dentata var. integra Gray
Pyrola pallida Greene
Pyrola paradoxa Andres
Pyrola picta subsp. dentata (Sm.) Piper
Pyrola picta subsp. integra (Gray) Piper
Pyrola picta subsp. pallida Andres
Pyrola picta var. dentata (Sm.) Dorn
Pyrola septentrionalis Andres
Pyrola sparsifolia Suksd.