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      - Order - Heaths / Wintergreens / Monotropes - Ericales
        
        Family - Heath Family - Ericaceae
        
        Species - Green-flower Wintergreen - Pyrola chlorantha

Green-flower Wintergreen - Pyrola chlorantha

Native Species

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: S4

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C-value: 8

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General Description

Leaves to 6 cm long; blade ovate to orbicular, to ca. 3 cm long, apex rounded to obtuse, base rounded, margin mostly entire; petioles ca. as long as the blade. Flowering stems to 28 cm; racemes 2–9 cm long, usually with fewer than 10 flowers; Flowers: petals white, tinged with green (greenish in bud). Capsules ca. 7 mm broad (Stickney in Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Species Range

Present

Range Comments

Circumboreal south to CA, AZ, NM, NE, MN, MI, OH, VA and RI (Stickney in Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database

Number of Observations: 229

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Relative Density

Recency

(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)

Habitat

Well drained, upland slopes of coniferous forests; montane, subalpine (Stickney in Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

References

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- Lesica, P., M. T. Lavin, and P. F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
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Citation for data on this website:
Green-flower Wintergreen — Pyrola chlorantha. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on February 23, 2019, from http://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PDPYR04030