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Liverleaf Wintergreen

Pyrola asarifolia subsp. incarnata (DC.) E. Murr.

Comprehensive Description

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Pyrola bracteata Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 47. 1834
Tkelaia bracteosa Alef. Linnaea 28: 57, in part. 1856. Pyrola bracteata Hillii J. K. Henry, Torreya 14: 32. 1914.
Perennial, with a long creeping scaly rootstock; stem above ground 1-5 cm. long; petioles 2-6 dm. long; leaf -blades from orbicular or oval to broadly ovate or subcordate, usually acute at the apex, denticulate, the teeth formed by the excurrent veins, 3-8 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, dark-green and shining above, reddish or brownish beneath; scape, including inflorescence, 2-4 dm. long, with 1 or 2 scales below the inflorescence; raceme 10-2 5 -flowered; bracts lanceolate or ovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, acuminate, tinged with rose color; pedicels about 5 mm. long; sepals deltoid-lanceolate, tapering gradually from the base, about 4 mm. long, about 2 mm. broad at the base, sharply acute or acuminate; petals oval, 6-7 mm. long, purple or rosecolored; anthers pinkish or yellowish, nearly 3 mm. long, apiculate at the distal end; style strongly curved, in flower 6-7 mm., in fruit 8-9 mm. long, slightly thickened upwards; stigmas soon longer than the width of the collar; capsule depressed-globose, about 8 mm. wide.
Type locaIvITy: Northwest coast of America.
Distribution: Open woods, from Oregon and Idaho to Montana and British Columbia.
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John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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