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Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Ericales Ericaceae
Pyrola americana G.Don

Pyrola americana G.Don

Pyrola americana G.Don

Pyrola americana G.Don is a small forest herb found across parts of Canada and the United States.

Pyrola asarifolia Michx.

Pyrola asarifolia Michx.

Pyrola asarifolia Michx.

Pyrola asarifolia is an evergreen western North American wintergreen species with hard-to-germinate dust-like seeds.

Pyrola chlorantha Sw.

Pyrola chlorantha Sw.

Pyrola chlorantha Sw.

Pyrola chlorantha, or greenflowered wintergreen, is a circumboreal Pyrola species that is endangered in several U.S. states.

Pyrola dentata Sm.

Pyrola dentata Sm.

Pyrola dentata Sm.

Pyrola dentata Sm. is a herbaceous plant native to western North America that grows in varied woodland and open rocky habitats.

Pyrola elliptica Nutt.

Pyrola elliptica Nutt.

Pyrola elliptica Nutt.

Pyrola elliptica Nutt. is a small white-flowered plant growing across parts of Canada and the United States.

Pyrola grandiflora Radius

Pyrola grandiflora Radius

Pyrola grandiflora Radius

Pyrola grandiflora is a circumpolar evergreen perennial subshrub with no confirmed documented medicinal properties.

Pyrola media Sw.

Pyrola media Sw.

Pyrola media Sw.

Pyrola media, intermediate wintergreen, is a rare declining evergreen perennial flowering plant native to parts of Europe and Western Asia.

Pyrola minor L.

Pyrola minor L.

Pyrola minor L.

Pyrola minor L. is a rosette-leaved sclerophyll with nodding pink flowers and 5-segmented nodding capsules.

Pyrola picta Sm.

Pyrola picta Sm.

Pyrola picta Sm.

Pyrola picta Sm. is a perennial heath-family herb native to western North America from southwestern Canada to the southwestern US.

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Pyrola rotundifolia L.

Pyrola rotundifolia L.

Pyrola rotundifolia (round-leaved wintergreen) is a Pyrola species with fragrant white flowers that grows across Eurasia.

Rhododendron albiflorum Hook.

Rhododendron albiflorum Hook.

Rhododendron albiflorum Hook.

Rhododendron albiflorum is a deciduous white-flowered mountain shrub native to northwestern North America with a disjunct Colorado population.

Rhododendron arboreum Sm.

Rhododendron arboreum Sm.

Rhododendron arboreum Sm.

Rhododendron arboreum Sm. is a large tree-like rhododendron, that holds the record for the world's tallest rhododendron, and is the national flower of Nepal.

Rhododendron aureum Georgi

Rhododendron aureum Georgi

Rhododendron aureum Georgi

Rhododendron aureum is a flowering Rhododendron species whose foliage is eaten by Boloria freija larvae and produces four specific compounds.

Rhododendron calendulaceum (Michx.) Torr.

Rhododendron calendulaceum (Michx.) Torr.

Rhododendron calendulaceum (Michx.) Torr.

Rhododendron calendulaceum is a deciduous orange-flowered shrub native to the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.

Rhododendron canadense (L.) Torr.

Rhododendron canadense (L.) Torr.

Rhododendron canadense (L.) Torr.

Rhododendron canadense is a low early-flowering shrub native to northeastern North America that grows in moist acidic habitats.

Rhododendron canescens (Michx.) G.Don

Rhododendron canescens (Michx.) G.Don

Rhododendron canescens (Michx.) G.Don

Rhododendron canescens is a pink-blooming azalea native to parts of the Eastern United States, growing up to 5 meters tall.

Rhododendron catawbiense Michx.

Rhododendron catawbiense Michx.

Rhododendron catawbiense Michx.

Rhododendron catawbiense is an eastern US native evergreen shrub cultivated as an ornamental for its spring violet-purple flowers.

Rhododendron caucasicum Pall.

Rhododendron caucasicum Pall.

Rhododendron caucasicum Pall.

Rhododendron caucasicum, a native Transcaucasus and Anatolia flowering shrub, has a cultivar that won the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Rhododendron columbianum (Piper) Harmaja

Rhododendron columbianum (Piper) Harmaja

Rhododendron columbianum (Piper) Harmaja

Rhododendron columbianum is an evergreen shrub with documented medicinal and insect-repelling uses, though it can be toxic if prepared incorrectly.

Rhododendron dauricum L.

Rhododendron dauricum L.

Rhododendron dauricum L.

Rhododendron dauricum L. is a compact semi-evergreen flowering shrub widely grown in garden cultivation.

Rhododendron ferrugineum L.

Rhododendron ferrugineum L.

Rhododendron ferrugineum L.

Rhododendron ferrugineum L. is a moderately toxic alpine shrub that bears pinkish-red summer flowers and grows on acidic siliceous soils.

Rhododendron groenlandicum (Oeder) Kron & Judd

Rhododendron groenlandicum (Oeder) Kron & Judd

Rhododendron groenlandicum (Oeder) Kron & Judd

Rhododendron groenlandicum is a northern evergreen shrub with traditional uses, though it contains toxic alkaloids.

Rhododendron hirsutum L.

Rhododendron hirsutum L.

Rhododendron hirsutum L.

Hairy alpenrose (Rhododendron hirsutum) is a European alpine Rhododendron that grows on carbonate-rich soils.

Rhododendron lapponicum (L.) Wahlenb.

Rhododendron lapponicum (L.) Wahlenb.

Rhododendron lapponicum (L.) Wahlenb.

Rhododendron lapponicum is a small circumpolar evergreen subshrub native to arctic and alpine tundra regions.

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