Species: Gaultheria ovatifolia
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Slender wintergreen is a low shrub with slender, nearly prostrate, hairy stems, 5-20 cm (2-8 in) long. The alternate, mostly glabrous leaves, 2-4 cm (ca. 1 in) long, are egg-shaped with finely toothed margins. Single stalked flowers occur in the leaf axils. Each white flower, 3-5 mm long, has a 5-lobed, urn-shaped corolla and a shorter, brown-hairy, 5-lobed calyx. The fruit is a bright red, globose berry, 6-8 mm wide.
Source: Encyclopedia of Life
Classification
Dicotyledoneae
Ericales
Ericaceae
Gaultheria
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Classification
Ecology and Life History
Slender wintergreen is a low shrub with slender, nearly prostrate, hairy stems, 5-20 cm (2-8 in) long. The alternate, mostly glabrous leaves, 2-4 cm (ca. 1 in) long, are egg-shaped with finely toothed margins. Single stalked flowers occur in the leaf axils. Each white flower, 3-5 mm long, has a 5-lobed, urn-shaped corolla and a shorter, brown-hairy, 5-lobed calyx. The fruit is a bright red, globose berry, 6-8 mm wide.
Source: Encyclopedia of Life