The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

WINTERGREEN

Wintergreen (Pyrolas) is a genus of herbs of the family Pyrolaceae. They have a slender shortly creeping stock. The leaves are orbicular or ovate and nearly radical. The plants bear white or greenish drooping flowers, either solitary or several in a short raceme, on leaflets. Common
Wintergreen (Pyrolas minor) is found in woods and moist shady places in Europe, Northern Asia and the extreme north of America, becoming a mountain plant in Southern Europe and the Caucasus.
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