Species: Orthilia secunda
One-side Wintergreen
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Anthophyta
Class
Dicotyledoneae
Order
Ericales
Family
Pyrolaceae
Genus
Orthilia
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Sidebells Wintergreen - sidebells wintergreen
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Other flowering plants
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Anthophyta - Dicotyledoneae - Ericales - Pyrolaceae - Orthilia
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Low perennial herb with round to oval leaves, green in winter, and greenish or white, 5-petaled flowers on a one-sided stalk.
Reproduction Comments
Seeds minute, assumed wind-dispersed.
Ecology Comments
Frost and shade tolerances inferred from range & habitat.
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1995-03-03
Global Status Last Changed
1984-08-29
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Circumboreal; in North America, Greenland and Newfoundland to Alaska, south to New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, northern Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Historically reported in Virginia, Ohio, and Delaware; extirpated in Indiana. Isolated populations in the Sierra Madre Oriental and in the Flora Neotropica area in Jalisco, the high mountains of south-central Mexico (the Neovolcanic Belt and southern Sierra MAdre Oriental), and south of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the mountains of Chiapas and western Guatemala at elevations of (1850-) 2000-4038 m.