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Pyrola chlorantha

Green-flowered Wintergreen

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Common names

Green-flowered Wintergreen.


Scientific name

Pyrola chlorantha Sw.


Conservation status and threats

NOT protected species in Bulgaria.


Description and identification

Pyrola chlorantha is a perennial herbaceous plant. Height 10 to 30 cm. Leaf petioles longer than the lamina. Style curved, longer than the ovary. Sepals 1.5 — 2.0 mm long, triangular. Corolla pale greenish or pale pink. Flowering June-August1.


Habitat

Shady and damp places in forests and bushes, mainly in the coniferous belt2.


Distribution in Bulgaria

In the Pirin, Rila, Western and Middle Rhodopes, Slavyanka mountains; between 1300 and 2100 meters altitude3.

Map of distribution in Bulgaria of Pyrola chlorantha by floristic regions (in green)4:

Pyrola chlorantha


General distribution

Map of general distribution (in green)5:

Pyrola chlorantha



References

1 Анчев, М. 1982. В: Флора на Народна Република България, том VIII. Издателство на БАН. София.

2 Анчев, М. 1982. В: Флора на Народна Република България, том VIII. Издателство на БАН. София.

3 Анчев, М. 1982. В: Флора на Народна Република България, том VIII. Издателство на БАН. София.

4 Стоянов К., Райчева Цв. & Чешмеджиев И. 2022. Определител на местни и чужди растения в България. Академично издателство на Аграрния университет, Пловдив. ISBN 978-954-517-313-4 www.botanica.gallery [публикуван на 25.06.2022, последна актуализация 19.07.2024] - CC-BY-NC-4.0.

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