Pyrola dentata

Toothed wintergreen, Toothed Wintergreen

Family: Ericaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Toothed wintergreen is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and Modoc Plateau in mixed conifer forests at elevations of 55 to 2,900 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white flowers arranged in clusters along an elongated scape 8 to 27 centimeters tall. Growing with delicate stems and a distinctive rosette of leaves, it forms low-growing clusters in forest understories. Its leaves are bluish-green, broadly round to elliptical, 3 to 13 centimeters long with gently toothed edges and tapered bases that attach to slender petioles. The small white flowers display bilateral symmetry, with delicate petals 4 to 8 millimeters long, creating a graceful appearance among forest floor vegetation.

Habitat: Mixed conifer forest, mixed conifer and

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 55-2900 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, SN, SnFrB, TR, PR, MP

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

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