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Wintergreen Family:- Wintergreen Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Water Fern to Yew Wild Flower Families Gallery:- |
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Common Name |
Botanical Name |
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Habitat |
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Common Wintergreen |
Pyrola minor |
A rhizomatous, mycorrhizal, perennial evergreen herb. In S. England it is a plant of damp woodlands with deep litter, on a variety of soils; elsewhere it occurs in damp places in heaths, plantations, disused railways, on rock ledges and in sand dunes. 0-1130 m (Ben Lawers, Mid Perth). |
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Flower from Wrotham Heath in Kent on 8 July |
Flowers from Wrotham Heath on 8 July |
Foliage from Chilterns on 3 August |
Form from Chilterns on 3 August |
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Greater Wintergreen |
Pyrola media |
A rhizomatous, mycorrhizal, evergreen perennial herb of well-drained, mildly acidic to slightly basic soils in woods and on heaths. It is characteristic of Arctostaphylos-Calluna submontane heath derived from former woodland. 0-550 m (Coire Garbhlach, Easterness). |
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Flower from Chilterns in August |
Flowers from Chilterns in August |
Fruit from Chilterns in August |
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Round-leaved Wintergreen |
Pyrola rotundifolia |
A rhizomatous, mycorrhizal, evergreen perennial herb. In England it usually grows in damp, calcareous sites including fens, disused chalk-pits and dune-slacks. In Scotland it inhabits open Pinus sylvestris woodland, river banks and gullies in open moorland, and montane cliff ledges. 0?760 m (Breadalbanes, Mid Perth). |
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Flower from East Kent on 20 August |
Flowers from Rainham in Kent |
Foliage from Rainham |
Form from Rainham |
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Saint Olaf's Candlestick |
Moneses uniflora |
A mycorrhizal, evergreen perennial herb, spreading by rhizomes within leaf litter and bryophytes in ericaceous dwarf shrub communities of old pine plantations, rarely now in native Pinus sylvestris forests. The solitary flower is insect-pollinated, but recruitment from seed is rare and most propagation is vegetative. Lowland, reaching 300 m (Castle Grant, Moray). |
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Flower from Hammersp in Austria on 11 July |
Flowers from Hammersp on 11 July |
Foliage from Liechenstein on 14 May |
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Yavering Bells |
Orthilia secunda |
A rhizomatous, mycorrhizal, evergreen perennial herb, of damp Calluna and Vaccinium-dominated communities, mostly in Pinus and Betula woodland but also on open moorland. It also grows in clefts and on ledges in rocky gullies, and on rocky stream banks. Flowering is often erratic. From 30 Kirkhill, Easterness) to 690 m (Craig an Dail, S. Aberdeen). |
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Flowers from Mittelberg in Austria on 16 July |
Foliage from Mittelberg on 16 July |
Form from Mittelberg on 16 July |
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