Pyrola chlorantha Sw.
green wintergreen (greenflowered wintergreen; greenish wintergreen)
Ericaceae (Crowberry family)
(Previously in Pyrolaceae)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
green wintergreen (greenflowered wintergreen; greenish wintergreen)
Ericaceae (Crowberry family)
(Previously in Pyrolaceae)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Species Information
General:
Perennial herb from a slender rhizome; flowering stems 9-25 cm tall, single, with 1 to several leaves at the base or sometimes naked; sterile shoots leafy.
Leaves:
Basal, evergreen, somewhat leathery, more or less elliptic to oblong-egg-shaped or circular, the blades 1-3.5 cm long, finely toothed, pale green above, deep green below; stalks usually longer than blades.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a (1) 2- to 8- (10) flowered terminal raceme, the flowers 9-13 mm wide, weakly bilaterally symmetric, open; flower stalks 3-8 mm long; bracts linear-lanceolate, usually shorter than stalks; petals pale yellowish to greenish-white, 5-6 mm long, converging; sepals triangular egg-shaped, less than 2 mm long, wider than long, tips blunt; anthers 2-4 mm long, the pore-tubes conspicuous; styles declined, curved, exserted, 4-7 mm long, with a distinct collar below the lobed stigma.
Fruits:
Capsules, depressed globe-shaped, to 5 mm wide.
Illustration
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Pyrola chlorantha
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 |
||
|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
1026 | 0 | 2500 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
17 | 0 | 220 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
237 | 0 | 360 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
3 | 0 | 8 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
3145 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ICH | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BAFA(3), BWBS(249), CWH(41), ESSF(250), ICH(775), IDF(270), MS(430), PP(4), SBPS(158), SBS(711), SWB(16) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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Habitat and Range
Dry to moist forests in the montane zone; common to frequent throughout BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains, infrequent westward; circumboreal, N to AK, YT, and NT, E to NF, and S to CA, AZ, SD, and PA; Eurasia.Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Pyrola chlorantha var. convoluta (W. Bart.) Fern.
Pyrola chlorantha var. paucifolia Fern.
Pyrola chlorantha var. revoluta Jennings
Pyrola convoluta W. Bart.
Pyrola oxypetala Austin ex A. Gray
Pyrola virens Schreb.
Pyrola virens var. convoluta (W. Bart.) Fern.
Pyrola virens var. saximontana Fern.