Pyrola asarifolia

Bog wintergreen

Family: Ericaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bog wintergreen is a California native perennial found in conifer forests and mixed evergreen woodlands at elevations of 1,000 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces distinctively pink to deep red flowers 4.8 to 9 millimeters long with delicate, open petals. Growing with erect flower stalks up to 60 centimeters tall, it forms a low-growing woodland ground cover. Its leaves are less than 20 centimeters long, with a shiny upper surface and often purple-tinted underside. The plant's flowers emerge in clusters of approximately 10 blooms, with broadly lanceolate bracts extending beyond the flower stems.

California counties: Placer, San Bernardino, Tulare, Madera, Siskiyou, Butte, Inyo, Plumas, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Lassen, Mariposa, Mendocino, Mono, Nevada, Sierra, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Kern, Modoc, Shasta, Sonoma

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.