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Species
round-leaved wintergreen
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderEricales
- FamilyEricaceae
Native toAfghanistan, Albania, Altay, Amur, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central
Observations recorded107,641
Common Name: luh-han-ts'au (Chinese)
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,681
- With media
- 2,646
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, RSA, SDSU, NHA, MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND, NCSC
- Recorded in
- United States, Finland, Sweden, China, Canada, Russia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- herbaceous plant
- Parent taxon
- Pyrola
- Image
- Dettaglio - Ericaceae Pyrola rotundifolia Lin. - Erbario Frizzi Perugia n. 1921.jpg
- Has use
- scalding
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- Commons gallery
- Pyrola rotundifolia
- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Pyrola rotundifolia
- Commons category
- Pyrola rotundifolia
- taxon common name
- okroglolistna zelenka
- has fruit type
- capsule
- taxon range
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- short name
- P. rotundifolia
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Encyclopedic overview
Pyrola rotundifolia, the round-leaved wintergreen, is a plant species of the genus Pyrola. It is found in Europe, Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Russia. It typically grows about a foot tall and blooms from May to August with bell-shaped, fragrant white flowers. The plant prefers moist, alkaline soils—often thriving in sandy or loamy environments such as bogs, fens, and beech woods.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pyrola rotundifolia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.