Pyrola (pyrola & shinleaf)
| ..... | 1-3(-4)cm | 1.5-4cm | 3-6 and 3-7cm |
| 1) style & filaments straight or nearly so, the stamens connivent around the style | ..... | ..... | ..... |
| white or greenish flowers: flowers on one side |
..... | one-sided pyrola (1.secunda = one-sided) moist woods & mossy bogs; s to MD | ..... |
| white, smaller flowers | ..... | lesser pyrola (2.minor = smaller) moist woods s to higher mts of New England | ..... |
| 1) style strongly declined at maturity; filaments upcurved, the anthers not surrounding the style |
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| green-veined fls | greenish-flowered p (3.chlorantha) dry woods; s to MD | ..... | shinleaf (4.elliptica) red stemlets; dry upland woods; NF to DE |
| white fls | ..... | ..... | round leaved p (5.rotundifolia = round-leaved) leathery leaves; dry or moist woods & bogs; s to NC |
| pink to pale purple fls | ..... | ..... | pink p (6.asarifolia = Asarum-lvd) moist woods & bogs; s to NY |