Orthilia secunda (One-Sided Wintergreen) - photos and description
General: Small woodland perennial with a single stem arising from a rosette of leaves. Plant glabrous.
Flowers: Small, whitish-green flowers grow in secund racemes, the styles are straight and protrude out of the flower. I measured a flower on the above plant at 9 mm long.
Leaves: Leaves are ovate to oblong, serrulate, basal, the blades longer than the petioles. We measured leaf blades at 3.5 cm long and 18 mm wide.
Height: Height is listed in Budd's Flora to 20 cm, the above plant was 10 cm tall.
Habitat: Moist coniferous forest.
Abundance: Common.
Origin: Native.
Synonym: Listed in some of the field guides we use as Pyrola secunda.
When and where photographed: The above photos were taken June 29th in mossy, wet spruce woods, Nisbet Provincial Forest, 400 km north of our home in Regina, SK.