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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Pyrolaceae
Pyrola chlorantha Sw.
green-flowered wintergreen, shin-leaf
Pyrola: pear-like, from the Latin diminutive of Pyrus, meaning "pear," for the pear-like leaf shape, and a genus commonly called shinleaf or wintergreen
chlorantha: chloros for "green;" acantha for "spikes"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 4"-10" tall forb |
| Flower: | white, 5-parted, stalked, 1/3" long, petals often with green veins, sepals oval to triangular and broader than long; inflorescence long-stalked, usually with less than 10 flowers per cluster; blooms June-Aug. |
| Fruit: | capsule opening from the bottom upward |
| Leaf: | mostly 1/3"-1" long, roundish, dull, often shorter than the stalk, nearly basal |
| Habitat: | dry; woods |
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