Plant Profile: Pyrola rotundifolia

Taxonomy: Pyrola rotundifolia

Names

Round-leafed Pyrola, Round-leaved Wintergreen

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Phonetic Spelling:py-ROH-luh ro-tun-dih-FOH-lee-ah

Genus:Pyrola

Species:rotundifolia

Family:Ericaceae

Round-leaf Wintergreen is a wildflower belonging to the heather family, found naturally across Europe, Asia, and Russia. This plant typically reaches a height of around one foot and produces bell-shaped clusters of white flowers from May to August. It thrives in alkaline, moist environments such as bogs, fens, and woodlands.

While it can be challenging to locate in the United States, seeds for this species can be purchased.

Pyrola rotundifolia Feature Summary

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Pyrola rotundifolia Feature Summary

Attributes
Leaves are used medicinally
Europe, Asia-Tropical and Asia-Temperate, Russia
Perennial
Flowers
Small, nodding whitish flowers with five petals in racemes in May-Aug.
Spring
Summer
4-5 petals/rays
Leaves
Leathery, shiny rounded ovate leaves with petioles often as long as the leaves in a basal rosette. Margins entire or crenate.
Entire
Crenate
Glossy
Leathery
Stem
Green to reddish-green smoothe stems
Green
Red/Burgundy
Smooth (glabrous)
Whole Plant Traits
Wildflower
Erect
Clumping
Cultural Conditions
Alkaline (>8.0)
Moist
Occasionally Wet

Pyrola rotundifolia Attributes

Pyrola rotundifolia: Uses (Ethnobotany)

Leaves are used medicinally

Pyrola rotundifolia: Country Or Region Of Origin

Europe, Asia-Tropical and Asia-Temperate, Russia

Pyrola rotundifolia: Life Cycle

Annual
Biennial
Bulb
Perennial
Woody

Pyrola rotundifolia Flowers

Pyrola rotundifolia: Flower Description

Small, nodding whitish flowers with five petals in racemes in May-Aug.

Pyrola rotundifolia: Flower Color

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White

Pyrola rotundifolia: Flower Inflorescence

Catkin
Corymb
Cyme
Head
Insignificant
Panicle
Raceme
Solitary
Spadix
Spike
Umbel

Pyrola rotundifolia: Flower Value To Gardener

Edible
Fragrant
Good Cut
Good Dried
Long Bloom Season
Long-lasting
Showy

Pyrola rotundifolia: Flower Bloom Time

Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall

Pyrola rotundifolia: Flower Petals

2-3 rays/petals
4-5 petals/rays
6 petals/rays
7 - 20 petals/rays
asymmetrical petals
Bracts
Colored Sepals
fused petals
more than 20 petals/rays
Tepals

Pyrola rotundifolia: Flower Shape

Bell
Cross
Crown
Cup
Dome
Funnel
Irregular
Lipped
Radial
Saucer
Star
Trumpet
Tubular
Urn
Wheel

Pyrola rotundifolia Leaves

Pyrola rotundifolia: Leaf Description

Leathery, shiny rounded ovate leaves with petioles often as long as the leaves in a basal rosette. Margins entire or crenate.

Pyrola rotundifolia: Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics

Broadleaf Evergreen
Deciduous
Needled Evergreen
Semi-evergreen

Pyrola rotundifolia: Leaf Arrangement

Alternate
Opposite
Other/more complex
Rosulate
Whorled

Pyrola rotundifolia: Leaf Shape

Acicular
Auriculate
Cordate
Cuneate
Deltoid
Elliptical
Filiform
Lanceolate
Linear
Oblanceolate
Oblong
Obovate
Obtuse
Orbicular
Ovate
Palmasect
Palmatifid
Peltate
Pinnatifid
Pinnatisect
Reniform
Rhomboidal
Spatulate
Subcordate
Subulate

Pyrola rotundifolia: Leaf Margin

Crenate
Crenulate
Dentate
Denticulate
Doubly Crenate
Doubly Dentate
Doubly Serrate
Entire
Lobed
Serrate
Sinuate
Undulate

Pyrola rotundifolia: Hairs Present

No
Yes

Pyrola rotundifolia: Leaf Feel

Fleshy
Glossy
Leathery
Papery
Prickly
Rough
Rubbery
Slippery
Smooth
Soft
Velvety
Waxy

Pyrola rotundifolia Stem

Pyrola rotundifolia: Stem Description

Green to reddish-green smoothe stems

Pyrola rotundifolia: Stem Color

grass
Green
grass
Red/Burgundy

Pyrola rotundifolia: Stem Is Aromatic

No
Yes

Pyrola rotundifolia: Stem Surface

Corky Ridges
Covered with a powdery bloom (glaucous)
Dull
Hairy (pubescent)
Polished
Smooth (glabrous)

Pyrola rotundifolia Whole Plant Traits

Pyrola rotundifolia: Plant Type

Annual
Bulb
Carnivorous
Edible
Epiphyte
Fern
Ground Cover
Herb
Herbaceous Perennial
Houseplant
Mushroom
Native Plant
Ornamental Grasses and Sedges
Perennial
Poisonous
Rose
Shrub
Succulent
Tree
Turfgrass
Vegetable
Vine
Water Plant
Weed
Wildflower

Pyrola rotundifolia: Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics

Broadleaf Evergreen
Deciduous
Needled Evergreen
Semi-evergreen

Pyrola rotundifolia: Habit/Form

Arching
Ascending
Broad
Cascading
Climbing
Clumping
Columnar
Conical
Creeping
Dense
Erect
Horizontal
Irregular
Mounding
Multi-stemmed
Multi-trunked
Open
Oval
Prostrate
Pyramidal
Rounded
Spreading
Vase
Weeping

Pyrola rotundifolia Cultural Conditions

Pyrola rotundifolia: Soil pH

Acid (<6.0)
Alkaline (>8.0)
Neutral (6.0-8.0)

Pyrola rotundifolia: Soil Drainage

Frequent Standing Water
Good Drainage
Moist
Occasional Flooding
Occasionally Dry
Occasionally Wet
Very Dry