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Orthilia

Orthilia secunda
OrthiliaSecunda.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Subfamily: Pyroloideae
Genus: Orthilia
Species: O. secunda
Binomial name
Orthilia secunda
(L.) House
Synonyms

Pyrola secunda


Pyrola secunda

Orthilia secunda is a flowering plant of the genus Orthilia in the family Ericaceae. It is the only member of the genus. Its common names are sidebells wintergreen,one-sided-wintergreen and serrated-wintergreen, and it was previously part of genus Pyrola, the wintergreens.

The plant has a circumboreal distribution, growing throughout much of the northern Northern Hemisphere.



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