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  - Division - Flowering Plants - Anthophyta
    - Class - Dicots - Dicotyledoneae
      - Order - Heaths / Wintergreens / Monotropes - Ericales
        
        Family - Heath Family - Ericaceae
        
        Species - Lesser Wintergreen - Pyrola minor

Lesser Wintergreen - Pyrola minor

Native Species

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: S3S4
C-value: 7

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General Description

Leaves to 5 cm long; blades suborbicular to ovate, to ca. 3 cm long, apex and base rounded to obtuse, margin mostly entire; petioles shorter than the blades. Flowering stems to 19 cm; racemes ca. 3 cm long, 6- to13-flowered, crowded. Flowers: calyx lobes pinkish; petals white; style straight. Capsules ca. 5 mm broad (Stickney in Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Species Range

Montana Range Range Descriptions

Native

Range Comments

Circumboreal south to CA, AZ, NM, MB, WI, MI, NY, ME and NS (Stickney in Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database

Number of Observations: 62

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Relative Density

Recency

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

Habitat

Riparian habitats in coniferous forests; montane, subalpine (Stickney in Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

References

Literature Cited AboveLegend: View Online Publication
- 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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- Jones, W. W. 1901. Preliminary flora of Gallatin County. M.S. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State College. 78 pp.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
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Citation for data on this website:
Lesser Wintergreen — Pyrola minor. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on April 18, 2024, from https://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PDPYR04060