Pyrola americana, the American wintergreen, is a plant species native to Canada and the United States.
| American wintergreen | |
|---|---|
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| 1913 illustration[1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Pyrola |
| Species: | P. americana |
| Binomial name | |
| Pyrola americana | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Description
editDistribution and habitat
editIt has been reported from every Canadian province from Newfoundland to Manitoba, as well as from Saint Pierre and Miquelon plus the northeastern US from Maine south along the Appalachian Mountains to extreme northeastern Tennessee. It also occurs in all the Great Lakes states and in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It grows in moist forests up to an elevation of 2100 m.[3][9]
References
edit- ↑ Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 2: 668.
- ↑ Tropicos
- 1 2 Flora of North America v 8 p 380
- ↑ Sweet, Robert. 1830. Hortus Britannicus, ed. 2 341.
- ↑ Křísa, Bohdan. 1966. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 85(4): 628.
- ↑ Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. 1920. Rhodora 22(259): 122.
- ↑ Fernald, M. 1950. Gray's Manual of Botany (ed. 8) i–lxiv, 1–1632. American Book Co., New York.
- ↑ Connecticut Botanical Society
- ↑ BONAP (Biota of North America Project) floristic synthesis, Pyrola americana
