About Orthilia secunda (L.) House
Orthilia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. This genus contains only one single species: Orthilia secunda (L.) House. This species goes by a number of common names, including sidebells wintergreen, one-sided-wintergreen, serrated-wintergreen, one-sided pyrola, one-sided shinleaf, and one-sided wintergreen. In the past, this species was classified as part of Pyrola, the genus of wintergreens. Orthilia secunda has a circumboreal distribution, and grows across most of the Northern Hemisphere. American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, which is also a type of wintergreen, belongs to a completely different genus.
