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