Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Pyrola asarifolia Michx. |
Synonyms | Pyrola cordata Andres |
Pyrola elata Nutt. | |
Pyrola uliginosa Torr. & A.Gray | |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Altitude | 0-3200m |
Description | leaves orbiculate to cordate, 20-65mm long, shiny green, denticulate, scape with achromatic scales, flowers 4-20, broadly campanulate, 10-14mm across |
Size | 15-40cm |
Color | pink, purple |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible division in early spring; cuttings in early and late summer |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Kamchatka ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan ) China (Inner Mongolia , Manchuria , China North-Central , Xinjiang ) Mongolia Eastern Asia (Japan , Korea ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Saskatchewan ) Eastern Canada (Labrador , New Brunswick , Newfoundland , Ontario , Prince Edward I. , Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado , Idaho , Montana , Oregon , Washington , Wyoming ) North-Central U.S.A. (Iowa , Minnesota , North Dakota , South Dakota , Wisconsin ) Northeastern U.S.A. (Indiana , Maine , Masachusettes , Michigan , New Hampshire , New York , Pennsylvania , Vermont ) Southwestern U.S.A. (California , Nevada , Utah ) South-Central U.S.A. (New Mexico) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ERICACEAE
asarifolia bracteata (Hook.) Jeps., Fl. Calif. [Jepson] 3: 59 (1939)
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