Orthilia
Genus of flowering plants in the heath family Ericaceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Orthilia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It has only one species, Orthilia secunda.[2][3][4] Its common names are sidebells wintergreen,[2] one-sided-wintergreen and serrated-wintergreen.[3] It is also called one-sided pyrola, one-sided shinleaf, and one-sided wintergreen. It was previously part of genus Pyrola, the wintergreens.[5]
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Orthilia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Ericaceae |
Subfamily: | Pyroloideae |
Genus: | Orthilia Raf. |
Species: | O. secunda |
Binomial name | |
Orthilia secunda (L.) House | |
Synonyms | |
Pyrola secunda |
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The plant has a circumboreal distribution, growing throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere.
The American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, belongs to a different genus.