Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ericales > Ericaceae > Pyrola > Pyrola elliptica

Pyrola elliptica (shinleaf; waxflower shinleaf)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera, Bats
Scent [1]  The flowers have a delicate sweet perfume;
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [1]  8 inches (0.2 m)
Width [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Pyrola elliptica

Protected Areas

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0