Pyrola minor, August 2, 2023
Common & scientific name
Green-flowered wintergreen, Pyrola minor
Family
Wintergreen, Pyrolaceae
Location
Woods on river, 10,300’
Fun, weird, helpful, or little known fact
This wntergreen is less common in our woods than its cousins P. chlorantha (also yellow/white) or P. asarifolia (magenta/pink). Its style is straight and shorter than that of P. chlorantha. It grows in moist, shaded woods. And I just learned that, like all Pyrolas, it does not have a true “stem”: just a stalk that its raceme of flowers grow on.