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Nodding Wintergreens
Orthilia
Orthilia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It has only one species, Orthilia secunda. Its common names are sidebells wintergreen, one-sided-wintergreen and serrated-wintergreen. It is also called one-sided pyrola, one-sided shinleaf, and one-sided wintergreen. It was previously part of genus Pyrola, the wintergreens.
The plant has a circumboreal distribution, growing throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

one-sided wintergreen
speciesOrthilia secunda

Orthilia obtusata
speciesOrthilia obtusata
Orthilia kareliniana
speciesOrthilia kareliniana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72270.