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Taxon: Pyrola rotundifolia L.

Genus: Pyrola
Family: Ericaceae subfamily: Monotropoideae tribe: Pyroleae. Also placed in: Pyrolaceae
Nomen number: 430229
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:396. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 24-Jan-2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • American wintergreen   (Source: PLANTS [as P. americana]) – English   [Pyrola rotundifolia var. americana]
  • round-leaf wintergreen   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  • wild lily-of-the-valley   (Source: Castanea 61:109.) – English   [Pyrola rotundifolia var. americana]

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan
    Caucasus: Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan
    Mongolia: Mongolia
    China: China - Xinjiang
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
    Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France; Spain
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Subarctic America: Greenland

References:

  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Grubov, V. I. 2001. Key to the vascular plants of Mongolia. (Pl Mongol)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora of China Checklist - on-line resource. (L China)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Pyrola rotundifolia L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?430229 (09 February 2010)

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